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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: volodya@mindspring.com, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: mm question
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:39:57 +0100
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On December 11, 2001 12:07 pm, volodya@mindspring.com wrote:
> On 11 Dec 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > There is actually a cheap trick that will achieve what you want.
> > Allocate pages.  If you allocate a page in the 0-64mb range keep
> > it allocated until you have allocated your 300KB > 64mb.  After
> > you have all of the pages you want free the extra pages in 0-64mb that
> > you didn't want...
> 
> Yes, I thought of that, but this might produce more memory pressure than
> needed. 
> 
> Regardless, it looks like I won't need this after all - the device has
> internal memory controller which was misprogrammed. I think I corrected
> this so it looks to be working now.
> 
> However, the question of how to get pages from a given range is
> interesting in itself..

Yes, particularly numa folks.

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Daniel
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