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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Privalloc(2) and rfork(RFPROC|RFMEM) (was: a pair nec bugs)
Date: Sun,  6 Sep 2015 08:02:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6b85b81d6885652f74b6e1b8d010215@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw7k5h1GVdeK4GntK4xEUqy3-_d8QSbVWE1ZC=jEoNdPq=UTA@mail.gmail.com>

> probably, since a shared bitmap would need a lock and allow
> any process to allocate a slot, which could then either be broadcast
> to allow per-process tagging (as above), or allocation of a slot of only
> local interest. even so, tprivfree is incomplete.

a slot of local interest?  doesn't malloc serve that purpose well enough?

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-06 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-05 14:03 Giacomo Tesio
2015-09-05 14:11 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-09-05 15:27 ` erik quanstrom
2015-09-05 16:41   ` erik quanstrom
2015-09-05 18:42     ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-09-05 18:47       ` erik quanstrom
2015-09-05 23:03         ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-09-05 18:56       ` cinap_lenrek
2015-09-05 22:45 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-09-05 23:38   ` cinap_lenrek
2015-09-06 13:14     ` erik quanstrom
2015-09-06 14:12     ` Charles Forsyth
2015-09-06 15:02       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2015-09-06 20:21         ` Charles Forsyth
2015-09-07  0:30           ` erik quanstrom
2015-09-07  9:38             ` Charles Forsyth
2015-09-07 11:59               ` Charles Forsyth
2015-09-06 18:21       ` cinap_lenrek
2015-09-06 20:27         ` Charles Forsyth

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