From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] IO/TLB bounce buffer space
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:20:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005753@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005716@msgid-missing>
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Rich Altmaier wrote:
> This is just a note to comment on the mention of:
> Thus, worst case buffer usage would be 8kB * 253 * 16 * 4 = 126 MB only
> for this driver! Of course it is highly unlikely that all these buffers
> will be in use simultaneously.
> This leaves no room for statistical analysis!
Yup. Even though it may be the architecture formerly
known as Itanic, people still CARE ABOUT STABILITY.
Coding device drivers or the OS in such a way that
kernel memory resources can be overcommitted is just
irresponsible and foolish.
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-24 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-12 8:44 [Linux-ia64] IO/TLB bounce buffer space Martin Wilck
2001-06-12 16:23 ` root
2001-06-12 17:01 ` Martin Wilck
2001-06-12 17:52 ` root
2001-06-22 22:50 ` Rich Altmaier
2001-06-24 15:20 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-06-25 11:37 ` Martin Wilck
2001-06-25 21:14 ` David Mosberger
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