Regarding remap_pfn_page

mindentropy mindentropy at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 14:18:05 EDT 2011


>Sorry to kicks in...
Was wondering where you were :)

>hm, quite likely you run out of contigous virtual address space that
>as big as you requested... in above, you requested 16 MiB, right?

Not virtual address space but physical page frames. Yes I requested 16MB.
I want a huge chunk for dma for a high bandwidth pcie(16GB/s!) device . I am 
thinking in terms of no scatter gather but generally any sane device would 
have one.



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