From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753338AbdBMTBW (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:01:22 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-f170.google.com ([209.85.220.170]:35714 "EHLO mail-qk0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751805AbdBMTBU (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:01:20 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC simple allocator v2 0/2] Simple allocator To: Mark Brown , Benjamin Gaignard References: <1486997106-23277-1-git-send-email-benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> <20170213181842.tn3nf7ogrwnzje2p@sirena.org.uk> Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, arnd@arndb.de, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch, laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com, robdclark@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hverkuil@xs4all.nl From: Laura Abbott Message-ID: <8d85ac42-9e42-ba1b-9d98-8e08a44572da@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:01:14 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170213181842.tn3nf7ogrwnzje2p@sirena.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/13/2017 10:18 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 03:45:04PM +0100, Benjamin Gaignard wrote: > >> An other question is: do we have others memory regions that could be interested >> by this new framework ? I have in mind that some title memory regions could use >> it or replace ION heaps (system, carveout, etc...). >> Maybe it only solve CMA allocation issue, in this case there is no need to create >> a new framework but only a dedicated ioctl. > > The software defined networking people seemed to think they had a use > case for this as well. They're not entirely upstream of course but > still... > This is the first I've heard of anything like this. Do you have any more details/reading? Thanks, Laura