Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2000 02:29:59 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: adding physical memory-pages to Linux' pool-of-pages |
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Heusden, Folkert van wrote: > Afaik the linux kernel has knowledge of several kinds of ram (at least the > Atari ST/TT-kernel should have), so just set it to the slow-variant.
The kernel has "zones" for different kinds of RAM that can be accessed in different ways, but it still assumes they are more or less the same speed. This means that if the PCI RAM were allocated for a user space page, it would stay continue using the PCI RAM even if it's used heavily.
If instead you use the PCI RAM as a ramdisk and swap to it, any program which makes heavy use of a page will cause the page to stay in main RAM where it should remain.
-- Jamie
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