hi, > Benefits I've thought about: > - The kmem pools use pool_caches therefor scalability will be much > better as the old malloc has a single lock for all access, the pools > have one each with a per cpu cache layer. > - The old malloc only returns oversized allocations back to the kmem > layer but nothing that is in it's bucket, pools can be drained... > - Removing one redundant interface in the kernel-api (in the long > term, when dropping the malloc wrapper)
thanks for working on this. while i'm all for removing malloc(9), i tend to think it should be done by changing the users to use either kmem_alloc or pool_cache, instead of making kmem_alloc interrupt-safe. i don't think there's much demand for interrupt-safe variable-sized memory allocations. YAMAMOTO Takashi
