From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: David Chow <davidchow@shaolinmicro.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Big memory, no struct page allocation
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:38:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020627013833.GO25360@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D15E9D0.1090209@shaolinmicro.com>
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Try allocating it at boot-time with the bootmem allocator.
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 11:31:28PM +0800, David Chow wrote:
> Thanks for suggestions, you mean this will allow no struct page or can
> use memory more than 1GB? Please make clear on direction, I would love
> to know. Thanks.
On 32-bit machines with 3:1 process address space splits yes.
In this case you're far better off playing games with the highmem
initialization in order to slice the memory out of there and kmap it.
Cheers,
Bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-27 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-23 8:55 David Chow
2002-06-23 8:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-06-23 15:31 ` David Chow
2002-06-27 1:38 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-06-30 18:38 ` David Chow
2002-07-01 17:48 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-02 6:06 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-03 16:16 ` David Chow
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