Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:00:03 -0800 | Subject | Re: [patch - 2.6.11-rc5-mm1] genalloc - general purpose allocator |
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>>>>> 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,
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