Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Oct 1998 19:10:15 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: MM with fragmented memory |
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On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 08:15:50PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote: > Then there's another problem, of course: the size of the kernel's memory > map is proportional to end_mem-start_mem, so if I pretend to have a few > MB worth of RAM between start_mem and end_mem, it'll quickly grow to a > few hundreds of kilobytes.
You don't have to arrange the memory map this way. Try changing the definition of MAP_NR to use a small lookup table or even a calculation (if the memory layout is regular) for the upper page address bits.
-- Jamie
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