On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Peter Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, peter. > Yes, graphical guys ask me the same questions, and the other device drivers > which don't support scatter buffer also have this doubt. > >
but i suspect it could be easily achieved through a patch to the kernel, to keep statistic of the longest available contiguous physical memory available. not sure myself....just a guess :-). but the overhead of calculation/maintaining statistic has to be justified by the benefits it bring in graphical card driver itself...... -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
