> From: Miod Vallat <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 17:09:36 -0000 (UTC) > > > I have serious doubt whether the whole "plan" for using the sizes to > > change the malloc implementation is feasable. The drm(4) code for > > example relies on emulation of Linux memory allocation APIs to keep > > the diffs small and jsg@ and myself sane. Most of these APIs don't > > pass sizes in their "free" interfaces. > > There's always the choice of keeping the existing implementation for > some types (such as M_DRM) and use a different implementation for other > types. > > And then see how better the new implementation fares.
True.
