Re: CVS commit: [matt-nb5-mips64] src/sys/arch/mips/mips

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

[wrong list, redirecting to source-changes-d, sorry...]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:34:54AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:56:27AM +0000, Matt Thomas wrote:
> > (slightly bogus but then we really should kill extent and switch to vmem)
> 
> I keep hearing this mantra.
> 
> Yet I don't see how vmem(9) is up to the task of, say, managing pcmcia io
> port allocations (without bogusly wasting memory).
> 
> Why is the vmem interface preferable? I see how we could improve the extend(9)
> implementation (e.g. kill the use fo malloc()).
> 
> Martin