Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:15:13 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x? |
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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > hm, does anyone have any conceptual problem with a new > > allocate_largemem(pages) interface in page_alloc.c? It's not terribly hard > > to scan all bitmaps for available RAM and mark the large memory area > > allocated and remove all pages from the freelists. Such areas can only be > > freed via free_largemem(pages). Both calls will be slow, so should be only > > used at driver initialization time and such. > > Would this interface swap out user pages if necessary? That sort of > interface would be great, and kill a number of hacks floating around out > there.
not at the moment - but it's not really necessery because this is ment for driver initialization time, which usually happens at boot time.
-- mingo
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