Re: [RFC 3/3] mm: iommu: The Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager

From: FUJITA Tomonori
Date: Thu Jul 22 2010 - 00:48:47 EST


On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:50:26 -0700
Zach Pfeffer <zpfeffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:59:43AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:02:23 +0100
> >
> > Zach Pfeffer said this new VCM infrastructure can be useful for
> > video4linux. However, I don't think we need 3,000-lines another
> > abstraction layer to solve video4linux's issue nicely.
>
> Its only 3000 lines because I haven't converted the code to use
> function pointers.

The main point is adding a new abstraction that don't provide the huge
benefit.
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