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SubjectRE: adding physical memory-pages to Linux' pool-of-pages
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> What I want to do is; I have an PCI-card with on-board RAM. I want
> somehow to tell the kernel that it can use that RAM as if it was any
> other RAM.
JG> Have you benchmarked accessing system memory versus PCI shared mem?
JG> I'm thinking not...

I'm thinking it doesn't matter that it's slower. I'm thinking it's less
slower than swapping to harddisk. Especially for the system I want to
implement this. That one has harddisks doing 1MB/sec. I think access trough
PCI can do better then that.

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