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Date:      Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:37:29 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Cc:        Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Subject:   Re: kernel memory
Message-ID:  <200507210137.29816.peter@wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <42DFDCCA.8050207@he.iki.fi>
References:  <42DFDCCA.8050207@he.iki.fi>

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On Thursday 21 July 2005 10:35 am, Petri Helenius wrote:
> What is the maximum kernel memory for amd64? Addresses by default
> seem to start with 0xffffffffxxxxxxxx so one could assume a 4gig
> limitation?
>
> Pete

2GB for paged kernel memory.  But in addition we access memory via the 
direct map area to avoid the need for temporary mappings in many cases.  
uma (malloc, mbufs) etc use this, as does the sfbuf temporary mapping 
system.

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Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
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