RE: [PATCH 1/3 v2] media: Add a cached version of the contiguous video buffers

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>Richard Röjfors <richard.rojfors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 08/04/2010 11:50 AM, Pawel Osciak wrote:
>>>
>>> How do you propose to allocate the buffers? They need to be contiguous
>>> and using uncached memory gave really bad performance.
>>
>> 829440 bytes is a quite a lot and one can't reliably depend on kmalloc
>> to be able to allocate such big chunks of contiguous memory. Were you
>> testing this on a freshly rebooted system?
>
>The systems have been running for a while, but not days.
>I don't see why would dma_alloc_coherent work better than kmalloc?
>

In principle it wouldn't. It's just it's much less intensively used and
allocates from a special area. Not really a bullet-proof solution either
though, I agree.


Best regards
--
Pawel Osciak
Linux Platform Group
Samsung Poland R&D Center





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