> > >>>>> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:56:15 -0500 (CDT), Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> said: > > Jack> If granularity is bytes, we need to support page-aligned > Jack> allocations. Fetchop pages are mmap'ed to user space. > > I see. But then EFI-page-aligned memory won't do you no good either > (i.e., you'd need a PAGE_SIZE-based allocator). Alternatively, just > allocated PAGE_SIZE+1 extra bytes and do the alignment yourself? > > --david That would work but would waste space (unless we allow "free" to accept a partial free of a previously allocated chunk. "free" would have to combine fragments). Fetchop space on our platform is a limited resource. -- Thanks Jack Steiner (651-683-5302) (vnet 233-5302) steiner@sgi.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Jul 29 20:23:34 2003
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