Re: Large Shared Memory

Tom Leete (tleete@access.mountain.net)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 20:00:07 -0400

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bret Orsburn <borsburn@codonics.com>
>Peter Monta wrote:
>> If you do need
>> this, the other possibility is to use the bigphysarea patch; a
>> 2.2 version can be found on Tom Leete's web page at
>>
>> http://web.mountain.net/~tleete/
>>
>> I've found bigphysarea to be really useful.
>
>Am I right to infer that this patch provides large /physically/ contiguous
>regions? If so, it may be stronger medicine than we need.

Yes, that's correct. It has typically been used to reserve buffer space for
high-speed or critically scheduled busmastering devices which cannot
tolerate swapping.

>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter Monta pmonta@imedia.com
>> Imedia Corp.
> Bret Orsburn
> borsburn@codonics.com

I have just modified bigphysarea to go easier on initrd. I'll post it for
testing right after I check for stupidities.

Tom

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