Proposed new kernel noncaching memory allocator for the 405gp

[Brad Parker]

Ralph Blach wrote:
>
>Frank,
>
>Yes, but these allocate on a page boundry and I was thinking of something a
>little more granular.
>
>Any objections?

There's a some of work going in this are on the linux usb list - check
out the recent archive.

Apparently the holy grain is the slab allocator which will allocate
non-cached memory.  There are several drivers (scsi & usb) which have
their own private versions.  Work is going on to create a generic library
which all drivers (pci and otherwise) can use...

-brad


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