[ofa-general] New proposal for memory management

[Woodruff, Robert J]

Jeff wrote,

>It sounds like your main objection to fixing them is "it's too much  
>work."  :-(

Not really, in general I think the kernel folks like to keep stuff
out of the kernel if it is not really needed, i.e., if it can be implemented 
in user-space, especially really complicated
things like this. It is probably a somewhat tricky code to implement, prone
to bugs that could cause instability in the kernel. Remember if there is a bug
in user-space and an application dies, it only effects that one application,
if the bug is in the kernel and it crashes the system it affects everyone.

That said, if you can find someone to implement it, then do it and send in
the patches. Assuming the code is not too ugly, maybe it would get accepted.