Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:57:36 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu> To: dg@root.com, terry@lambert.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, jpt@msc.edu Subject: Re: Assumptions about kmem_malloc()... Message-ID: <199702282157.PAA20337@plains.nodak.edu>
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> Why doesn't it push pages around to get a contiguous space so that > it won't fail? that would work if everything is swappable. It is hard to fight those holes when drivers that need wired contigous memory come and go through lkm loads/unloads. Most driver allocations would puke if their memory got moved unless we go to a double pointer arrangement, but (aaaaaaaaaahhhhhgg) I would not have to be the one to have to debug VM problems). --mark.
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