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Re: Memory allocation problem

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:14:38PM -0000, anand kumar wrote:
> 
> Is there any other mechanism to allocate large amount of 
> physically contiguous memory blocks during normal run time of the
> driver? Is this being addressed in later kernels.

Look at vmalloc().  It should do what you are looking for.

greg k-h
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