Re: Allocation of kernel memory >128K

[Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:27:36AM -0600, Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com wrote:
> I would not necessarily say that "large amounts of continuous memory is a
> bad thing" - rather that it is hard to get, and a costly operation (in
> time). For example - a number of existing pages must be moved (or swapped)
> to get the area you are requesting. Since this is a big performance hit,
> you better have a really good reason for doing so.

Don't even bother thinking about performance: it is unreliable.

		-ben
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