[haiku-development] Odd area allocation patterns by some kernel drivers
- From: "Rene Gollent" <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 18:55:55 -0600
Hi,
I was looking around at a few things and I noticed a few of our
drivers seem to have somewhat strange patterns of allocating areas in
the kernel. Specifically the nforce/FreeBSD driver allocates around
500 areas that look like the following:
590 contig:src/libs/compat/freebsd_ 90b6e000 1000 1000 0 0
And the firewire bus manager allocates around 200 that look like so:
2018 fw ir Area 947e6000 1000 1000 0 0
Is this intentional? From a glance through the list the areas appear
to be contiguous so I'm curious as to why so many small areas are
being allocated instead of one or a few larger ones.
Regards,
Rene
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