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Terry Lambert writes:
 > was attempting to address was related to whether or not the memory
 > in question was physically vs. logically contiguous:
 > 

No, its whether or not its cache-coherent.  We do everything at a
page granularity, and could care less about whether or not the memory
is contiguous.

Drew