> What I meant here is, there must be difference speed when you copy
> onto something contigous vs non contigous. IIRC at least it will waste
> some portion of L1/L2 cache.

When you say, LKM area is prepared with vmalloc is it for code /
executable you refering too ? if so will it matter for data copy ?

Point # 2. Some one was saying that on atleast MIPS it takes more
cycle to call kernel main function from module because of log jump.
Does it apply to x86_64 to ?

To teat above two should I make my module part of static kernel ?

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