On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:49, Rodolphe Ortalo wrote: > > >Also, you need kernel-specific mechanisms to ensure > > > that this is locked memory (never goes to swap, never gets > > > remapped) and/or to have multiple contiguous pages. > > > > I thought this was simple in Linux. > > That's possible. X11 did it that way for a long time, on linux but > also on *BSD. > But it interferes with other things in the kernel (unified buffer > cache for example, or also co-existence of X11 and linuxfb). So there > is a cost (software maintainance and kernel-specific code issues > mostly).
As a Linux VM hacker, I'll declare this a non-problem. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
