kernel memory
Petri Helenius
pete at he.iki.fi
Sun Jul 24 07:08:25 GMT 2005
BTW, I remember seeing a freebsd memory map somewhere but I'm unable to
locate it again. Is there one that has been updated to be valid for the
64 bit platforms?
Pete
Petri Helenius wrote:
> Peter Wemm wrote:
>
>>
>> 2GB for paged kernel memory. But in addition we access memory via
>> the direct map area to avoid the need for temporary mappings in many
>> cases. uma (malloc, mbufs) etc use this, as does the sfbuf temporary
>> mapping system.
>>
>>
>>
> So there is no limitation for malloced memory? Say if my driver would
> like to have 4 or 8 gig lookup cache that would work?
>
> Pete
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