Re: System 5 shared memory: before I do somethign stupid...

Christoph Rohland (hans-christoph.rohland@sap-ag.de)
22 Sep 1998 09:48:01 +0200


alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:

> Is there any current reason that the shared memory tables (the ulong per
> page) can't be vmalloc() instead of kmalloc()'d. Its a small change to
> allow support for much bigger shared memory areas that the price of RAM
> makes eminently reasonable.

If this would be possible it would be a big win!

BTW. Is there a possibility to change the fixed id/page partitioning
scheme? THis would make it possible to have many small segments and
one or a few big ones.

Cheers
Christoph

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