On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:04:46AM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote: > On 1/23/19 11:11 AM, Brian Starkey wrote: [snip] > > I'm very new to all this, so any pointers to history in this area are > appreciated. > [snip] > > > In case you didn't come across it already, the effort which seems to > > have gained the most "air-time" recently is > > https://github.com/cubanismo/allocator, which is still a userspace > > module (perhaps some concepts from there could go into the kernel?), > > but makes some attempts at generic constraint solving. It's also not > > really moving anywhere at the moment. > > > > Very interesting, I'm going to have to stare at this for a bit. In which case, some reading material that might be of interest :-) https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2016/Program/Unix_Device_Memory_Allocation.pdf https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2017/jones_allocator.pdf https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2017-November/177632.html -Brian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
