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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH] (2.4.x bk) efi_memmap_walk_uc
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:47:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105951888419883@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105883467032028@msgid-missing>

> That sounds pretty good.  Even a naive bitmap allocator would probably
> work initially.  Might we ever want to allocate 2+ pages?  Forcing all
> allocations to be a single page makes many things easier.

min_state areas for MCA will be smaller than a page ... so *my* use
of this allocator doesn't require multi-page.

You know best whether fetchop() will ever want more than a page.

So far, nobody else has leapt out of the woods to claim any other
uses for UC memory (that's a cue for anyone waiting to jump into this
discussion).

We could plan ahead for hypothetical future multi-page users by
defining a "size" argument to alloc/free, but keep our (your) life
simple for now by only implementing the one-page-at-a-time usage
model.

-Tony

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-29 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-22  0:43 [PATCH] (2.4.x bk) efi_memmap_walk_uc Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-22  2:16 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2003-07-22  2:58 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-22  3:08 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2003-07-22  4:43 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-25  1:15 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-29 18:34 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-29 18:45 ` Luck, Tony
2003-07-29 19:03 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-29 20:41 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-29 21:15 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-29 21:31 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-29 21:34 ` Luck, Tony
2003-07-29 22:05 ` Jack Steiner
2003-07-29 22:07 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-29 22:26 ` Luck, Tony
2003-07-29 22:30 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-29 22:35 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-29 22:37 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-29 22:47 ` Luck, Tony [this message]
2003-07-29 22:48 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-29 22:54 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-29 23:49 ` Jack Steiner
2003-07-29 23:54 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-29 23:56 ` Jack Steiner
2003-07-30  0:00 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-30  0:02 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-30  0:05 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-30  0:12 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-30  0:22 ` Jack Steiner
2003-07-30  9:21 ` Christoph Hellwig

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