Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] inefficient large vectors

[Marcus D. Leech]

> Yes, this is what I am doing, but it is not very nice, and you cannot
> easily mix in blocks that want to work at the stream level. What
> really bugs me that I think the scheduler could figure all out, and
> treat my vectors as a stream, allocate nice buffers (who cares if the
> vector fits in the buffer in an integer multiple times). Am I wrong
> with this? I think this would be a nice further development... Miklos
The aligned-to-page-size buffer management is due to the way that mmap() 
is used to mutliply-map these buffers into the address space.
  That only "works" if the sizes are multiples of the native page size.


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Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
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