From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 5 13:15:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5D537B401 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:14:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f15LFoe01152; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:15:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200102052115.f15LFoe01152@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bumping up {MAX,DFLT}*PHYS (was Re: Bumping up {MAX,DFL}*SIZ in i386) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:09:54 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:15:50 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It seems to me that the physio should just be beefed up to take an argument to > a 'parameterization' function, and that flags could be used that say "we don't > even need this mapped any where- just make sure that the pages referred to are > resident". This is more or less what Matt was talking about; the mapping of buffer pages into linear KVM should be optional based on a driver attribute (or, perhaps preferably, only performed at the driver's request). I'm sure that someone will eventually get around to doing something about this... -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message