Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Sep 1996 12:12:29 +0200 | From | "Volker.Lendecke" <> | Subject | Re: Pageable memory from kernel-mode? |
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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).
:-((. I would like to have much memory to work around a Windows 95 bug in smbfs. Or, do you think it is possible to vmalloc about 64k temporarily during a readdir call? I need it because I want to get a complete directory in one big chunk. Windows 95 can not split the readdir call, and I want to be prepared for very large directories.
Volker
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