Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755897Ab1FJLYp (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:24:45 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:56100 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755559Ab1FJLYo (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:24:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:24:51 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Marek Szyprowski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, Michal Nazarewicz , Kyungmin Park , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Ankita Garg , Daniel Walker , Johan MOSSBERG , Mel Gorman , Arnd Bergmann , Jesse Barker Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] lib: genalloc: Generic allocator improvements Message-ID: <20110610122451.15af86d1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1307699698-29369-3-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> References: <1307699698-29369-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <1307699698-29369-3-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 573 Lines: 13 I am curious about one thing Why do we need this allocator. Why not use allocate_resource and friends. The kernel generic resource handler already handles object alignment and subranges. It just seems to be a surplus allocator that could perhaps be mostly removed by using the kernel resource allocator we already have ? 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/