alt Hacker Newswhy would it? the parent OS can already handle physically contiguous allocations so these should be no different (with the exception that a separate interface can be used to do compute over these buffers/pages).
why would it? the parent OS can already handle physically contiguous allocations so these should be no different (with the exception that a separate interface can be used to do compute over these buffers/pages).
If it requires physically contiguous RAM to work, then it's not really participating in the full virtual memory system, really. It would be using an exception to it, that can be accommodated to some extent by the OS, but not sitting in demand-paged storage like the rest of the system.