Re: New slab allocation (pre-alpha)

From: Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 01:51:54 EST


Mark Hemment writes:

> The new design supports subcaches. Each cache has subcaches
> for the type of memory it supports. Currently, only two types
> of memory are supported; NORMAL and DMA.
> A better name might be zone-caches - matching the 2.4.x
> page types.

So, what about a sound card that can only access the first 256 MB?
That isn't the 16 MB limit, and it isn't the 4 GB limit either.
Must we have a new memory type code for each address bit?

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