Hi Bala: My understanding form lwn.net site and linaro article, ION has more unified interface to manipulate memory buffer whatever it allocate from physical contiguous or virtual contiguous since it's has different memory heap allocator. You can choose it according to your requirement or customized it.
Links from Linaro. https://wiki.linaro.org/BenjaminGaignard/ion 在 2012年4月25日星期三UTC+8下午6时26分45秒，Bala Abiraman写道： > > Dear, > > what will be the advantage over ion comparing with pmem? > > BR > > On Mar 6, 5:14 pm, jagan <402ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Google has approached a new mem allocation phenomena as a replacement > > for PMEM in Androidv4. > > > > The new allocator talks about > > "It's a unified approach to buffer management and sharing between > > display, GPU, camera, codecs, etc." > > > > Links: > http://lwn.net/Articles/480055/http://source-android.frandroid.com/external/kernel-headers/original/... > > > > > > Regards, > > Jagan. -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
