Re: Problem allocating DMA memory

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:35:00 +0100 (BST)

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> Allocation DMA memory can fail even on 64MiB system (I seen it) and in theory
> even on 17MiB system :-(( There are was some ideas about fixing/workarounding
> it (mostly from Rik van Riel <riel@humbolt.geo.uu.nl> but some can be found
> on www.alsa-project.com) but AFAIK noone suggested idea sane enough to pass
> Linus test yet...

2.2.11/2.2.12 have a zoned allocator which seems to help massively

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