Re: limit on number of kmapped pages

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:35:12AM +0000, David Wragg wrote:
> 
> > And why do the pages need to be kmapped? 
> 
> They only need to be kmapped while data is being copied into them.

But you only need to kmap one page at a time during the copy.  There
is absolutely no need to copy the whole chunk at once.

--Stephen
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