On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Pooja Gupta wrote: > I want to reserve some part of my physical memory > for my application which runs in kernel mode, say 20% > of my physical RAM or so. > For this, I was thinking to add a new zone in the > zone allocator of the current linux mm (linux 2.4.7 or > I wanted to know that how feasible is this idea The big problem is teaching kswapd to not try and free pages in this zone, since it will never succeed if you have all pages used and you don't want kswapd to loop ;) regards, Rik -- Shortwave goes a long way: irc.starchat.net #swl http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
