> > A short recap why I belive the kmalloc / vmalloc construct is necessary: > > 0) The current code uses vmalloc only. > 1) The allocated area ranges from 4 bytes possibly up to 512 kB, depending on > on the size of the AGP buffer allocated. > 2) Large buffers are very few. Small buffers tend to be quite many. > If we continue to use vmalloc only or another page-based scheme we will > waste approx one page per buffer, together with the added slowness of > vmalloc. This will severely hurt applications with a lot of small > texture buffers. > > Please let me know if you still consider this unacceptable.
explicit use of either kmalloc/vmalloc is fine with me; I would suggest an 2*PAGE_SIZE cutoff for this decision > > In that case I suggest sticking with vmalloc for now. > > Also please let me know if there are other parths of the patch that should be > reworked. > > The patch that follows is against Dave's agpgart repo. > <you forgot the patch> -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
