>Sorry to kicks in... Was wondering where you were :) >hm, quite likely you run out of contigous virtual address space that >as big as you requested... in above, you requested 16 MiB, right? Not virtual address space but physical page frames. Yes I requested 16MB. I want a huge chunk for dma for a high bandwidth pcie(16GB/s!) device . I am thinking in terms of no scatter gather but generally any sane device would have one. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies