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Rustaceans at the border

Rustaceans at the border

Posted Apr 16, 2022 17:46 UTC (Sat) by jsakkine (subscriber, #80603)
In reply to: Rustaceans at the border by tialaramex
Parent article: Rustaceans at the border

Fallible allocation is only a small portion of the problem.

Also, what is required even for the drivers are access directly kmem_cache and gfp_t flags.

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Rustaceans at the border

Posted Apr 17, 2022 11:35 UTC (Sun) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]

If it's "required even for the drivers" then presumably both the C and Rust drivers presented for comparison here:

https://lwn.net/Articles/863459/

... illustrate that ?

Of course almost a year has passed since that was written, so Rust and Rust for Linux has made further improvements, but presumably you don't mean that these things somehow became mandatory in the last 12 months.


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