Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Pageable memory from kernel-mode? | Date | Sun, 8 Sep 1996 18:18:57 +0100 (BST) |
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> I just looked around in the kernel for ways to allocate pageable memory in > kernel space. Is this possible? I know this should be a bit more difficult > to use, because processes might sleep any time accessing the memory, but I > need lots of memory with no strict timing in kernel mode, so paging would > not be a problem for this application.
Its not currently possible. We have two services which effectively do this by communicating with a back end user space program and keeping a cache of results (mrouted for multicast routing, and arpd for ARP on very big switched networks).
Alan
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