[RFC simple allocator v2 0/2] Simple allocator

Laura Abbott labbott at redhat.com
Mon Feb 13 19:01:14 UTC 2017


On 02/13/2017 10:18 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 03:45:04PM +0100, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> 
>> An other question is: do we have others memory regions that could be interested
>> by this new framework ? I have in mind that some title memory regions could use
>> it or replace ION heaps (system, carveout, etc...).
>> Maybe it only solve CMA allocation issue, in this case there is no need to create
>> a new framework but only a dedicated ioctl.
> 
> The software defined networking people seemed to think they had a use
> case for this as well.  They're not entirely upstream of course but
> still...
> 

This is the first I've heard of anything like this. Do you have any more
details/reading?

Thanks,
Laura


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