Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:32:08 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [Intel-IOMMU 02/10] Library routine for pre-allocat pool handling |
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote:
> In the IOMMU case, we need exactly opposite of what mempool provides, > i.e we always want to look for the element in the pool and if the pool > has no element then go to OS as a worst case. This resource pool > library routines do the same. Again, this resource pools > grows and shrinks automatically to maintain the minimum pool > elements in the background. I am not sure whether this totally > opposite functionality of mempools and resource pools can be > merged.
What functionality are you missing in the page allocator? It seems that is does what you want? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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