From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>
To: Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: MM with fragmented memory
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:26:07 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981022122457.1419C-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199810220948.LAA06921@lrcsun15.epfl.ch>
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> >> - allocations from start_mem and end_mem are each limited to a total of
> >> 512kB
> >
> > Allocations are limited to 128kB already.
>
> Are you sure this limit also applies to linear allocations, i.e.
> my_huge_buffer = start_mem;
> start_mem += 5*1024*1024;
Things like this will have to be done at kernel initialization.
The code is arch-specific and the number of occurances will be
absolutely minimal. Unless, of course, you will want to have
multiple multi-megabyte buffers on your Psion-5 ;)
Rik.
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1998-10-22 9:25 ` Rik van Riel
1998-10-22 9:48 ` Werner Almesberger
1998-10-22 10:26 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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