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Re: Memory allocation problem
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 21:40, anand kumar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for immediate response. I used 2.4.20 kernel patched with
> > bigphys
> > area and got it working. I know that this patch is part of Suse
> > distribution. Is there any plans to incorporate this patch in
> > Red Hat?
> > Is Red Hat 9 kernel equipped with this patch?
>
> no it's not, nor are there plans to add it. BigPhysArea is a hack, not a
> solution. The solution is to use the scatter-gather engine on the pci
> card instead of needing to chainsaw physical ram always...
>
And what about those cards that have no scatter-gather support in the hardware?
Mark
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