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Date:      Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:58:11 +0300
From:      Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel memory
Message-ID:  <42DFF043.3090203@he.iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <200507210137.29816.peter@wemm.org>
References:  <42DFDCCA.8050207@he.iki.fi> <200507210137.29816.peter@wemm.org>

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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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