Re: Re: Memory allocation problem

Arjan van de Ven
2003-05-05T08:33:16Z

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On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 21:40, anand kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for immediate response. I used 2.4.20 kernel patched with
> bigphys
> area and got it working. I know that this patch is part of Suse
> distribution. Is there any plans to incorporate this patch in
> Red Hat?
> Is Red Hat 9 kernel equipped with this patch?

no it's not, nor are there plans to add it. BigPhysArea is a hack, not a
solution. The solution is to use the scatter-gather engine on the pci
card instead of needing to chainsaw physical ram always...

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