cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageq.c

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Sat Apr 16 04:32:07 PDT 2005


On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 01:16:07PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely12.cicely.de> writes:
> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:45:02PM +0000, John Baldwin wrote:
> > >   Log:
> > >   Add a vm.blacklist tunable which can hold a space or comma seperated list
> > >   of physical addresses.  The pages containing these physical addresses will
> > >   not be added to the free list and thus will effectively be ignored by the
> > >   VM system.  [...]
> > Sounds like this could be used if physical memory in non-continuous.
> 
> No, that is already taken care of.  I think you'd be hard pressed to
> find a modern computer where physical memory was in fact contiguous...

I thought x86 world is always continuous - beside that traditional
640k-1M hole.
Where can I find informations on how this is setup?
I'm asking because of an AS4100 with memory hole between 5G and 6G
followed by 512M and am unshure about support for it.
Yes - I know the current 2G limit, that's another story.

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