From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C156B02A8 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:06:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:06:04 +0100 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: cma: Contiguous Memory Allocator added Message-ID: <20100722090602.GF10930@sirena.org.uk> References: <1279649724.26765.23.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <20100721135229.GC10930@sirena.org.uk> <20100721182457.GE10930@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Micha?? Nazarewicz Cc: Daniel Walker , linux-mm@kvack.org, Marek Szyprowski , Pawel Osciak , Xiaolin Zhang , Hiremath Vaibhav , Robert Fekete , Marcus Lorentzon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kyungmin Park , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:41:12PM +0200, Micha?? Nazarewicz wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:24:58 +0200, Mark Brown wrote: > >> I am currently working on making the whole thing more dynamic. I imagine > > Yes, I think it will be much easier to be able to grab the regions at > > startup but hopefully the allocation within those regions can be made > > much more dynamic. This would render most of the configuration syntax > > unneeded. > Not sure what you mean by the last sentence. Maybe we have different > things in mind? I mean that if the drivers are able to request things dynamically and have some knowledge of their own requirements then that removes the need to manually specify exactly which regions go to which drivers which means that most of the complexity of the existing syntax is not needed since it can be figured out at runtime. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org