Where might I find the "biphysarea" patch? (I'm using 2.0.32.)
That will probably do nicely. I understand that fragmentation would diminish
my odds of getting a dynamically allocated large buffer. My application is
somewhat specialized and I'm willing to hack the kernel to get what I want.
Incidentally, Windows NT allows me to allocate these huge buffers. I notice
that when I do so, it takes a long time and I hear the disk going for a
while. I suspect it is dropping buffers, and possibly paging out process
memory to get that stretch I need. It seems that page_alloc.c has the
beginnings of this, but only works for single-page allocations.
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