On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
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> And vmalloc can malloc larger memory than kmalloc, is vmalloc() enough?
> If not, I think using an array of pages is the best choice.

vmalloc would be simpler, certainly, but it has a higher overhead. And
since we're dealing with arrays of integers here, it's not too hard to
manage multiple arrays. Oh, except for sorting them, which would be
more of a pain. So yes, maybe vmalloc() would be a better choice at
first.

Paul
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