Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:33:37 +0200 (MET DST) | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: Problem with >1 page GFP_KERNEL kmalloc() |
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On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Gerard Roudier wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Harald Koenig wrote:
> > well, could anyone please fix the floppy device driver as we sometimes > > get > > > > Unable to allocate DMA memory
> That is not exactly the same problem in my opinion. > ISA DMA capable interfaces need bounce buffers. Such hardwares have been > designed when machines had very fiew memory and generally have very low > performances. > Making available a small pool of about 100K or a fiew more for such hardware > is not expensive and should work with normal performance.
maybe Mark Hemment's VM implementation (which does page reaping) solves this problem too?
-- mingo
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