Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 08:52:29 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, CSP1DWD@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: When is the new sound code being committed? Message-ID: <199610101352.IAA04683@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199610101340.IAA04739@plains.nodak.edu> from "Mark Tinguely" at Oct 10, 96 08:40:21 am
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> > rewriting the VM code that goes to force contigous memory chunks is a tall > request, but if done, our drivers will be more than pleased to release our > buffers when we no longer need them. > Our new contigmalloc will be really inefficient, going on to draconian measures to find continguous memory. It is indeed a tall order to do the contiguous allocation correctly, but I am going to work-around some of the complexity by evicting pages mercilessly. The code is likely to best be used at LKM load time :-). John
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