Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x?

Jeff Garzik
1999-12-09T20:24:52Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> hm, does anyone have any conceptual problem with a new
> allocate_largemem(pages) interface in page_alloc.c? It's not terribly hard
> to scan all bitmaps for available RAM and mark the large memory area
> allocated and remove all pages from the freelists. Such areas can only be
> freed via free_largemem(pages). Both calls will be slow, so should be only
> used at driver initialization time and such.

Would this interface swap out user pages if necessary? That sort of
interface would be great, and kill a number of hacks floating around out
there.

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