Re: [rtl] RTAI and RTLinux

[yodaiken@fsmlabs.com]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:18:25AM -0700, David Schleef wrote:
> I don't think that "running out of memory" and "running out of CPU
> time" are fundamentally different things.  It's just that with a
> memory allocator, you are notified of a lack of resources and can
> do something graceful instead of locking the machine.

Sure. But I think there is a significant difference between:
          1. At startup time, allocate N buffers for a pool 
             for a particular purpose and have an allocate/free
             routine.
and 
          2. Maintain a general purpose buffer pool with unknown
             size and many users.




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