On 10/9/06, Paul Durrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/9/06, Holger Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Project proposal: 64k kernel project > > I propose a 64k kernel project. This project should contribute and > support on an on-going basis: > > - A SPARC kernel which uses 64k pages instead of 8k pages ("dwarf > pages") as default page size. The system should no longer use or > support the usage of 8k pagesHow would this work with network I/O? Do the IOMMUs support 64k pages?
AFAIK yes
Do you really want to expose a 64k chunk of memory to IO just to DMA in a single ethernet packet?
These are static buffers. We know that *some* memory gets wasted but the amount should be limited Holger _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
