On Tue, Oct 17 2017, Guy Shattah wrote: > Are you going to be OK with kernel API which implements contiguous > memory allocation? Possibly with mmap style? Many drivers could > utilize it instead of having their own weird and possibly non-standard > way to allocate contiguous memory. Such API won't be available for > user space. What you describe sounds like CMA. It may be far from perfect but it’s there already and drivers which need contiguous memory can allocate it. -- Best regards ミハウ “𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓪86” ナザレヴイツ «If at first you don’t succeed, give up skydiving» -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
