On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Heusden, Folkert van wrote:
> > What I want to do is; I have an PCI-card with on-board RAM. I want
> > somehow to tell the kernel that it can use that RAM as if it was any
> > other RAM.
> JG> Have you benchmarked accessing system memory versus PCI shared mem?
> JG> I'm thinking not...
>
> I'm thinking it doesn't matter that it's slower. I'm thinking it's less
> slower than swapping to harddisk. Especially for the system I want to
> implement this. That one has harddisks doing 1MB/sec. I think access trough
> PCI can do better then that.
It *does* matter. However using it as swap is perfectly feasible; in
fact at least one patch has been posted to lkml which does such.
(sorry, I don't have any reference, this old man's brain fails me at the
moment)
Jeff
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