From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3ABA7A27.B4CC8355@intrex.net> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:18:15 -0500 From: Ralph Blach MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Malek Cc: frowand@mvista.com, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org, David Blythe Subject: Re: Proposed new kernel noncaching memory allocator for the 405gp References: <3ABA1B6A.87C5FE9B@intrex.net> <3ABA5152.34E4F5B4@mvista.com> <3ABA6746.4BB8DF7@intrex.net> <3ABA6D60.46D844F3@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Dan, No, the transmit descriptors in the USB code are much less than a page. Look at ohci-usb.c Why do a kmalloc? And what about SCSI and it linked list? These need bytes and not whole pages. Any I'll do it and submitt it . Chip Dan Malek wrote: > Ralph Blach wrote: > > > Yes, but these allocate on a page boundry and I was thinking of something a > > little more granular. > > You can only control cache behavior on page boundaries at best, and > from the few drivers I have looked at, this is exactly what they > expect. > > > Any objections? > > I have been listing them in previous messages. > > -- Dan -- Ralph "Chip" Blach KF4WBK Chapel Hill, North Carolina ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/