Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262477AbVCJJLZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:11:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262476AbVCJJLY (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:11:24 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:47852 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262478AbVCJJLI (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:11:08 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Mario Holbe Subject: Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory? Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:43:18 +0100 Organization: Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany Message-ID: References: X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54b8f1eb.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Debian) X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: glk-linux-kernel@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 15 Jason Luo 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 -- I thought the only thing the internet was good for was porn. -- Futurama - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/