From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
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
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change gen_pool allocator to not touch managed memory
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:49:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44520F54.7010209@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060426163151.GA8037@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 <dcn@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-28 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-24 18:35 [PATCH] change gen_pool allocator to not touch managed memory Dean Nelson
2006-04-25 1:16 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-25 15:50 ` Dean Nelson
2006-04-26 9:12 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-04-26 11:08 ` Robin Holt
2006-04-26 11:18 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-04-26 13:28 ` Dean Nelson
2006-04-26 13:42 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-04-26 16:31 ` Dean Nelson
2006-04-28 12:49 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2006-04-26 10:27 ` Jesper Juhl
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