From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: vmalloc improvements
Date: 23 Feb 2001 17:01:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <97715f$sj1$1@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200102240026.QAA09446@k2.llnl.gov>
In article <200102240026.QAA09446@k2.llnl.gov>,
Reto Baettig <baettig@k2.llnl.gov> wrote:
>
>We would volounteer to improve vmalloc if there is any chance of
>getting it into the main kernel tree. We also have an idea how we
>Could do that (quite similar to the process address space management):
>
>1. Create a generic avl-tree headerfile (similar to list.h)
....
No thanks.
Just use the process address space management as-is, and make the
vmalloc address list be the same as any other address list: it would just
be the "native" address list for "init_mm".
You could probably even use "insert_vm_struct()" directly, and have that
do the AVL tree stuff for you, no changes needed.
>Is this something that makes sense to do and that could make it
>into the 2.4 or the 2.5 kernel?
It's definitely not a 2.4.x thing.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-24 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-24 0:26 RFC: vmalloc improvements Reto Baettig
2001-02-24 0:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-27 0:50 ` Reto Baettig
2001-02-27 0:56 ` David S. Miller
2001-02-24 1:01 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2001-02-24 1:09 ` Alan Cox
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