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SubjectRe: [patch - 2.6.11-rc5-mm1] genalloc - general purpose allocator
>>>>> On 03 Mar 2005 03:21:56 -0500, Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com> said:

Jes> mempool on the other hand will first try and call the user
Jes> provided allocation function and only if that fails try and
Jes> take memory from the pool, this will force us to convert pages
Jes> from cached to uncached if we don't have to.

Ah, that's a good point.

Jes> [snip...]

Jes> One could probably do this via mempool, but it would basically
Jes> require one to put another object allocator below mempool which
Jes> really makes the whole exercise pointless as this could just as
Jes> well be done standalone ... ie. genalloc.

It does sound that way, yes.

Thanks,

--david
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