Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261280AbVDZCRl (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:17:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261278AbVDZCRk (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:17:40 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.41]:40847 "EHLO ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261280AbVDZCRf (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:17:35 -0400 Message-ID: <426DA495.4040700@ammasso.com> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:16:53 -0500 From: Timur Tabi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: IWAMOTO Toshihiro CC: Roland Dreier , Andrew Morton , hch@infradead.org, hozer@hozed.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation References: <200544159.Ahk9l0puXy39U6u6@topspin.com> <20050411142213.GC26127@kalmia.hozed.org> <52mzs51g5g.fsf@topspin.com> <20050411163342.GE26127@kalmia.hozed.org> <5264yt1cbu.fsf@topspin.com> <20050411180107.GF26127@kalmia.hozed.org> <52oeclyyw3.fsf@topspin.com> <20050411171347.7e05859f.akpm@osdl.org> <4263DEC5.5080909@ammasso.com> <20050418164316.GA27697@infradead.org> <4263E445.8000605@ammasso.com> <20050423194421.4f0d6612.akpm@osdl.org> <426BABF4.3050205@ammasso.com> <52is2bvvz5.fsf@topspin.com> <20050425135401.65376ce0.akpm@osdl.org> <521x8yv9vb.fsf@topspin.com> <20050425151459.1f5fb378.akpm@osdl.org> <426D6D68.6040504@ammasso.com> <20050425153256.3850ee0a.akpm@osdl.org> <52vf6atnn8.fsf@topspin.com> <20050426020338.5909570488@sv1.valinux.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20050426020338.5909570488@sv1.valinux.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 544 Lines: 12 IWAMOTO Toshihiro wrote: > If such memory were allocated by a driver, the memory could be placed > in non-hotremovable areas to avoid the above problems. How can the driver allocated 3GB of pinned memory on a system with 3.5GB of RAM? Can vmalloc() or get_free_pages() allocate that much memory? - 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/