On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 16:15 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, JD wrote: > > > Problem comes as Michael explains, that when a process needs a large > > "physically contiguous" chunk of memory, it might not be available. > > That said, usually, requests for physically contiguous memory is only > > needed when wanting to map very large number of DMA pages for > > doing direct physical I/O. > > Otherwise, a process itself does not need to have physically contiguous > > pages. Only the virtual space allocated to that "malloc" or large buffer > > declaration in a program, is contiguous. > > Why would malloc or a large buffer declaration > require physically contiguous memory? I have te equally interesting question? Why you think malloc allocates memory blocks in the swap area. Do you have a reference for such a statement? -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
