On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, JD wrote: > Problem comes as Michael explains, that when a process needs a large > "physically contiguous" chunk of memory, it might not be available. > That said, usually, requests for physically contiguous memory is only > needed when wanting to map very large number of DMA pages for > doing direct physical I/O. > Otherwise, a process itself does not need to have physically contiguous > pages. Only the virtual space allocated to that "malloc" or large buffer > declaration in a program, is contiguous. Why would malloc or a large buffer declaration require physically contiguous memory? -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
