From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12DAB6B019E for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 07:28:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Physical Memory Management [0/1] From: Peter Zijlstra In-Reply-To: References: <20090513151142.5d166b92.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:20:02 +0200 Message-Id: <1242300002.6642.1091.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82?= Nazarewicz Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, m.szyprowski@samsung.com, kyungmin.park@samsung.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 11:00 +0200, MichaA? Nazarewicz wrote: > PMM solves this problem since the buffers are allocated when they > are needed. Ha - only when you actually manage to allocate things. Physically contiguous allocations are exceedingly hard once the machine has been running for a while. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org