Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

Timur Tabi
2005-04-26T02:17:41Z

IWAMOTO Toshihiro wrote:

> If such memory were allocated by a driver, the memory could be placed
> in non-hotremovable areas to avoid the above problems.

How can the driver allocated 3GB of pinned memory on a system with 3.5GB of RAM? Can
vmalloc() or get_free_pages() allocate that much memory?