kernel memory

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Thu Jul 21 18:58:18 GMT 2005


Peter Wemm wrote:

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>2GB for paged kernel memory.  But in addition we access memory via the 
>direct map area to avoid the need for temporary mappings in many cases.  
>uma (malloc, mbufs) etc use this, as does the sfbuf temporary mapping 
>system.
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So there is no limitation for malloced memory? Say if my driver would 
like to have 4 or 8 gig lookup cache that would work?

Pete




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