Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: System 5 shared memory: before I do somethign stupid... | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Date | 22 Sep 1998 09:48:01 +0200 |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
> Is there any current reason that the shared memory tables (the ulong per > page) can't be vmalloc() instead of kmalloc()'d. Its a small change to > allow support for much bigger shared memory areas that the price of RAM > makes eminently reasonable.
If this would be possible it would be a big win!
BTW. Is there a possibility to change the fixed id/page partitioning scheme? THis would make it possible to have many small segments and one or a few big ones.
Cheers Christoph
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