> > In the design for the new allocator, I forgot the first
> > 2 points you gave... I did have some other issues however,
>
> Could you specify which issues?
- differentiation between DMA memory, normal memory and
uncached memory
- lazy reclamation in the extreme (involves off-page
management instead of the on-page linked lists we have
now)
- extreme care wrt. fragmentation and leaving one zone
free for emergencies
and some other cruft, which you can see on:
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/zone-alloc.html
Rik.
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