On Thursday 16 June 2011 19:01:33 Larry Bassel wrote: > > Can you describe how the memory areas differ specifically? > > Is there one that is always faster but very small, or are there > > just specific circumstances under which some memory is faster than > > another? > > One is always faster, but very small (generally 2-10% the size > of "normal" memory). > Ok, that sounds like the "SRAM" regions that we are handling on some ARM platforms using the various interfaces. It should probably remain outside of the regular allocator, but we can try to generalize the SRAM support further. There are many possible uses for it. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
