Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754007Ab0HSPQe (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:16:34 -0400 Received: from sh.osrg.net ([192.16.179.4]:54657 "EHLO sh.osrg.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750951Ab0HSPQb (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:16:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:15:12 +0900 To: kyungmin.park@samsung.com Cc: m.nazarewicz@samsung.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, dwalker@codeaurora.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, corbet@lwn.net, p.osciak@samsung.com, broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hvaibhav@ti.com, hverkuil@xs4all.nl, kgene.kim@samsung.com, zpfeffer@codeaurora.org, jaeryul.oh@samsung.com, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, m.szyprowski@samsung.com Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFCv3 0/6] The Contiguous Memory Allocator framework From: FUJITA Tomonori In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20100820001339N.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (sh.osrg.net [192.16.179.4]); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:15:15 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 15 On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:01:35 +0900 Kyungmin Park wrote: > Are there any comments or ack? > > We hope this method included at mainline kernel if possible. > It's really needed feature for our multimedia frameworks. You got any comments from mm people? Virtually, this adds a new memory allocator implementation that steals some memory from memory allocator during boot process. Its API looks completely different from the API for memory allocator. That doesn't sound appealing to me much. This stuff couldn't be integrated well into memory allocator? -- 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/