Re: [patch - 2.6.11-rc5-mm1] genalloc - general purpose allocator

2005-03-07 Thread David Mosberger
> On 03 Mar 2005 03:21:56 -0500, Jes Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Jes> mempool on the other hand will first try and call the user Jes> provided allocation function and only if that fails try and Jes> take memory from the pool, this will force us to convert pages Jes> from cached

Re: [patch - 2.6.11-rc5-mm1] genalloc - general purpose allocator

2005-03-07 Thread David Mosberger
On 03 Mar 2005 03:21:56 -0500, Jes Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jes mempool on the other hand will first try and call the user Jes provided allocation function and only if that fails try and Jes take memory from the pool, this will force us to convert pages Jes from cached to

Re: [patch - 2.6.11-rc5-mm1] genalloc - general purpose allocator

2005-03-03 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "David" == David Mosberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> At the risk of asking the obvious: what's preventing genalloc David> to be implemented in terms of mempool? David, Taking another look at mempool, there's several reasons why mempool isn't well suited for this job. Basically

Re: [patch - 2.6.11-rc5-mm1] genalloc - general purpose allocator

2005-03-03 Thread Jes Sorensen
David == David Mosberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David At the risk of asking the obvious: what's preventing genalloc David to be implemented in terms of mempool? David, Taking another look at mempool, there's several reasons why mempool isn't well suited for this job. Basically for the

Re: [patch - 2.6.11-rc5-mm1] genalloc - general purpose allocator

2005-03-02 Thread David Mosberger
At the risk of asking the obvious: what's preventing genalloc to be implemented in terms of mempool? --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [patch - 2.6.11-rc5-mm1] genalloc - general purpose allocator

2005-03-02 Thread David Mosberger
At the risk of asking the obvious: what's preventing genalloc to be implemented in terms of mempool? --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at