[Mesa-dev] Switching from talloc

[Jose Fonseca]

Hi Kenneth,

I was waiting for Jakob to comment first (given he did most of the talloc reimplemntation on the thalloc branch) but I'll take the liberty of doing so since he hasn't comment so far.

Although I think it was unfortunate that both Intel & VMware ended up putting resources reimplementing talloc I'm defintely very happy to see this LGPL dependency going away.

The ralloc code looks fine, so does the approach taken. Some minor portability tweaks may be necessary for windows but it should be trivial to do after comited.

Jose

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From: mesa-dev-bounces+jfonseca=vmware.com at lists.freedesktop.org [mesa-dev-bounces+jfonseca=vmware.com at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Kenneth Graunke [kenneth at whitecape.org]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 19:07
To: mesa-dev at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: [Mesa-dev] Switching from talloc

Hello,

This patch series introduces 'ralloc', an MIT-licensed recursive memory
allocator inspired by talloc.

Since the glsl2 merge, there have been concerns over using talloc in Mesa
due to its LGPLv3 license.  Whether or not these are founded, switching to
ralloc would alleviate these concerns and bring everything in line with
Mesa's traditional licensing.

We would also be able to customize and tune ralloc for Mesa's needs without
having to consider any potential negative performance impact on Samba.

If there are no objections, I'll push this series later this week.

--Kenneth

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