Re: DMA memory shortage?

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:52:50 +0000


On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 09:25:22PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> Why? When there isn't enough dma pages available, but enough free mem, the
> kernel could move the pages into upper memory. that is the proper way.

We look forward to your patch.
Meanwhile, there is no mechanism for moving pages pages that are in use.

-- Jamie

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