linux-kernel - Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem

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Message-Id: <1168885223.3122.304.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:20:22 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
Cc:	theSeinfeld@...rs.sourceforge.net,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, libdc1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and  
	VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem


> > 
> I've used vmalloc in the past, and not had a problem, but it is a fair 
> question, how do you find out how much space is available? Other than a 
> binary vmalloc/release loop.

that's a really hard question since it's dynamic;
I suppose a good rule of thumb is "never expect more than 16Mb to work"
(when I said "64Mb" that was for the kernel as a whole, and there's
other users than just "you" :)

if you need that much you probably should redesign your algorithms to
not need vmalloc in the first place....


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