Exa and dri

[Keith Packard]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 16:22 -0400, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> True. If this turns out to be prohibitive, maybe a hybrid approach where
> exa allocates large chunks (>= fbChunkSizeHint?) from the external
> allocator and manages smaller allocations within these chunks internally
> could be useful. Or maybe that's getting too complicated...

First demonstrate that a simple system isn't sufficient.

My own pet theory is that we'll need to support relocation of objects as
the address space is dense. I also want to see support for kicking
objects out of display memory in the basic system.

-keith

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