Generic IOMMU pooled allocator

Sowmini Varadhan sowmini.varadhan at oracle.com
Tue Mar 24 06:09:38 AEDT 2015


On (03/23/15 15:05), David Miller wrote:
> 
> Why add performance regressions to old machines who already are
> suffering too much from all the bloat we are constantly adding to the
> kernel?

I have no personal opinion on this- it's a matter of  choosing
whether we want to have some extra baggage in the library to support
old hardware, or keep the code lean-and-mean for the future,
where the model has changed.

I'll let others on this list make the call.

--Sowmini



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