From: David McCullough (davidm@snapgear.com)
Date: Sun Sep 15 2002 - 21:42:16 EDT
Jivin Thomas Chen lays it down ... > which one is supposed to be used??? for nommu type of system??? what > are > the difference??? i saw the header comment that page_alloc2 is attempt > to be > better, but my config is still using page_alloc, is this right? You can use either and it depends on your reasons: page_alloc2 does not use power of 2 allocations, which can save you a lot of memory, however, it is a little slower because it has to search for contiguous free blocks. Follow the link in this article on uCdot to get some more information about the different allocs and how they affect user programs: http://www.ucdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/28/058213 Cheers, Davidm -- David McCullough: Ph: +61 7 3435 2815 http://www.SnapGear.com davidm@snapgear.com Fx: +61 7 3891 3630 Custom Embedded Solutions + Security This message resent by the uclinux-dev@uclinux.org list server http://www.uClinux.org/
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