[haiku-development] Re: Odd area allocation patterns by some kernel drivers

"Rene Gollent" <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  Well, in BSD it's certainly intentional. For Haiku, it's currently 
> > not
> Would you mind elaborating as to why? :) I'm just wondering.

Smaller areas are more likely not to cause any allocation problems. The 
DMA region might be restricted, and maybe you don't mind too much 
getting 300 or 500 buffers (so a part of it may fail).

Bye,
   Axel.


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