Re: starting with 2.7

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Jan 11 2005 - 12:21:39 EST


On Llu, 2005-01-10 at 21:08, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:55:22PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Llu, 2005-01-10 at 20:11, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > I haven't seen a real request from someone who requires 1GB, but needs
> > > to use more than 96MB (16MB GFP_DMA + 64-128MB softiommu/amd iommu memory)
> >
> > Some bm4400 users report this problem.
>
> I would assume 64-96MB is enough for a bcm4400.

Well as I said some bcm4400 users report this problem. So whatever we
have right now isn't good enough. Perhaps fragmentation is involved.

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