Messages in this thread | | | From | "Heusden, Folkert van" <> | Subject | RE: adding physical memory-pages to Linux' pool-of-pages | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:42:46 +0200 |
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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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