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The Android ION memory allocator

The Android ION memory allocator

Posted Feb 22, 2012 1:42 UTC (Wed) by zengtm (subscriber, #74989)
In reply to: The Android ION memory allocator by blackwood
Parent article: The Android ION memory allocator

In the article it does say that map/unmap is the place to handle cache coherency and buffer synchronization. Did I have wording to indicate attach/detach is for synchronization?

And I agree that the persistent device mappings seem to be the more common smart phone use cases.


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