From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
To: Mario Holbe <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:39:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4232020E.5050402@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d0p1ag$ngk$1@sea.gmane.org>
Mario Holbe wrote:
> Jason Luo <abcd.bpmf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical
>>memory? can do? how to do it?
>
>
> The ftape utils have a tool called swapout which tries to 'free'
> large chunks of memory which then can be allocated by the ftape
> module loaded subsequently.
> I don't know if this approach does also work with *such* large
> chunks like yours.
Wasn't there a problem with a process having mlocked memory in the wrong
place and the application hanging? Or the kernel hanging? Or something.
Can't remember.
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-11 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-10 8:10 Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory? Jason Luo
2005-03-10 8:16 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-03-10 8:49 ` Jason Luo
2005-03-10 8:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-10 18:57 ` Nate Edel
2005-03-10 19:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-10 20:28 ` linux-os
2005-03-10 9:00 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-03-10 8:43 ` Mario Holbe
2005-03-11 20:39 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
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2005-03-11 2:20 ` Robert Hancock
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