Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 13:43:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 13:41:51 -0500 Received: from m851-mp1-cvx1c.edi.ntl.com ([62.253.15.83]:21486 "EHLO pinkpanther.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 13:40:53 -0500 From: Alan Cox Message-Id: <200112181521.fBIFLZ716040@pinkpanther.swansea.linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: mempool design To: andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:21:35 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mingo@elte.hu (Ingo Molnar), bcrl@redhat.com (Benjamin LaHaise), riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel) In-Reply-To: <20011217160426.U2431@athlon.random> from "Andrea Arcangeli" at Dec 17, 2001 04:04:26 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > If somebody wants such 1% of ram back he can buy another dimm of ram and > plug it into his hardware. I mean such 1% of ram lost is something that > can be solved by throwing a few euros into the hardware (and people buys > gigabyte boxes anyways so they don't need all of the 100% of ram), the How do I add dimms to an embedded board ? > solved with lots braincycles and it would be a maintainance work as > well. Abstraction and layering definitely helps cutting down the > complexity of the code. I'm not too worried. mempool as an API can relatively easily be persuaded to do reservations on an underlying allocator some point in the future. Alan - 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/