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On Dec 1, 2003, at 12:17 PM, <ragge@ludd.luth.se> wrote:

> I for sure have an upper bound of it anyway because the kernel vm
> area may be very limited in size, so the only question is if the
> buffers must fight with other users of the same map.

Well, but your upper-bound should come from a run-time tunable, rather 
than a boot-time limit.  We should be striving to rid ourselves of as 
many boot-time limits as is feasible.

> Is the uarea the only other frequent user of the kernel_map today?
> In that case it may not be a big problem, but it still is lurking
> around down there.

U-area, bus_dma(9), and pools (on systems that don't have a 
direct-mapped memory segment that can be used).

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>


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