Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

From: Mario Holbe
Date: Thu Mar 10 2005 - 04:14:50 EST


Jason Luo <abcd.bpmf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical
> memory? can do? how to do it?

The ftape utils have a tool called swapout which tries to 'free'
large chunks of memory which then can be allocated by the ftape
module loaded subsequently.
I don't know if this approach does also work with *such* large
chunks like yours.


regards,
Mario
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