Subject: Re: Food for thought.
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 01/10/2001 11:44:19
bjh21@netbsd.org said:
/*
 * uvm_pglistalloc: allocate a list of pages
 *

> I think that should do what you want (set size=16k, alignment=16k). 

Good, that removes one of the problems; with this (and probably using the 
pool code to cache regions previously allocated), and with pmap page 
stealing it ought to be possible to make the system pretty robust in this 
area.

R.