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From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>
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Subject: Re: Linux gen_pool allocator replacement?
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On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 08:34:09AM +0200, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> Thanks for the hint to vmem(9). There seems to be already a 
> driver-specific support using blist for gen_pool:
> 
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/dev/cxgb/ulp/iw_cxgb/iw_cxgb_hal.h#L190

I see. Just a note, this is rather naive and lock-heavy comparing with
the caching and streamlined vmem(9). OTOH, the code seems to be from the
time when we did not have vmem(9) ported.