From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <38501014.E5066331@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 15:24:52 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel List , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Ingo Molnar wrote: > hm, does anyone have any conceptual problem with a new > allocate_largemem(pages) interface in page_alloc.c? It's not terribly hard > to scan all bitmaps for available RAM and mark the large memory area > allocated and remove all pages from the freelists. Such areas can only be > freed via free_largemem(pages). Both calls will be slow, so should be only > used at driver initialization time and such. Would this interface swap out user pages if necessary? That sort of interface would be great, and kill a number of hacks floating around out there. -- Jeff Garzik | Just once, I wish we would encounter Building 1024 | an alien menace that wasn't immune to MandrakeSoft, Inc. | bullets. -- The Brigadier, "Dr. Who" -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/