Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:49:24 +0200 | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] change gen_pool allocator to not touch managed memory |
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Dean Nelson wrote: > The following patch modifies the gen_pool allocator (lib/genalloc.c) to > utilize a bitmap scheme instead of the buddy scheme. The purpose of this > change is to eliminate the touching of the actual memory being allocated. > > Since the change modifies the interface, a change to the uncached > allocator (arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c) is also required. > > Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
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