From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org mailing list"
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc:Fix rheap alignment problem
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 09:34:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C4F75531-D046-42EF-AAF7-D45B84DA1720@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060701102557.GA14013@lst.de>
On Jul 1, 2006, at 5:25 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 05:21:06PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 14:35 +0800, Linux powerpc wrote:
>>> Yes, it was used for allocating dual port RAM for CPM. And now
>>> we are
>>> adding QE support to powerpc arch which need to use rheap(QE is next
>>> generation for CPM). Please see the patches I <leoli@freescale.com>
>>> just posted for 8360epb support. Moreover, previous CPM support is
>>> adding to powerpc arch too.
>>
>> Ok, well, I don't have anything specifically against that code, I was
>> just wondering if it may not duplicate something we already have (yet
>> another space allocator basically)...
>
> Yepp. Without looking at the rheap allocator in deatail, any reason
> it can't use lib/genalloc.c?
Doing a quick glance at lib/genalloc.c I dont see any reason we
couldn't use it. However, Panto will know best, since he wrote rheap.
- k
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-01 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-30 13:02 Li Yang-r58472
2006-06-30 23:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] ` <DCEAAC0833DD314AB0B58112AD99B93B07B36E@ismail.innsys.innovsys.com>
[not found] ` <a0bc9bf80606302335p7ba227afwf69dc42e2eada64b@mail.gmail.com>
2006-07-01 7:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-07-01 10:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-01 14:34 ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2006-07-01 14:50 ` Pantelis Antoniou
[not found] ` <DCEAAC0833DD314AB0B58112AD99B93B07B36F@ismail.innsys.innovsys.com>
2006-07-02 5:18 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2006-07-03 11:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-07-03 6:49 Li Yang-r58472
2006-07-03 12:19 Li Yang-r58472
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