Alan Cox wrote: > > > If I understand well the problem is get more than 1<<maxorder contiguos > > phys pages in RAM. I think it should not too difficult to do a dirty hack > > Yep. We are talking about 2->4Mb sized chunks. We are also talking about > chunks that are allocated rarely - for example when you load wave data > into the sound card, while you are capturing etc. So its blocks that > can be slow to allocate, slow to free, so long as they are normal speed > to access. That may make the problem a lot easier
How much of this problem can be solved with a ramfs that takes what you
give it at boot time?
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Garst
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