Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Physical Memory Management [0/1] | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 14 May 2009 14:05:02 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 13:48 +0200, Michał Nazarewicz wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 11:00 +0200, Michał Nazarewicz wrote: > >> PMM solves this problem since the buffers are allocated when they > >> are needed. > > On Thu, 14 May 2009 13:20:02 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Ha - only when you actually manage to allocate things. Physically > > contiguous allocations are exceedingly hard once the machine has been > > running for a while. > > PMM reserves memory during boot time using alloc_bootmem_low_pages(). > After this is done, it can allocate buffers from reserved pool. > > The idea here is that there are n hardware accelerators, each > can operate on 1MiB blocks (to simplify assume that's the case). > However, we know that at most m < n devices will be used at the same > time so instead of reserving n MiBs of memory we reserve only m MiBs.
And who says your pre-allocated pool won't fragment with repeated PMM use?
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