From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:49:24 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] change gen_pool allocator to not touch managed memory Message-Id: <44520F54.7010209@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <444D1A7E.mailx85W11DZZU@aqua.americas.sgi.com> <20060424181626.09966912.akpm@osdl.org> <20060425155051.GA19248@sgi.com> <444F3990.5030100@sgi.com> <20060426132803.GA30360@sgi.com> <444F78AB.6030803@sgi.com> <20060426163151.GA8037@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20060426163151.GA8037@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dean Nelson Cc: akpm@osdl.org, tony.luck@intel.com, avolkov@varma-el.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org, holt@sgi.com 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 Acked-by: Jes Sorensen Jes