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Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFCv4 0/6] The Contiguous Memory Allocator framework
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On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 15:08 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:

> > That would be good.  Although I expect that the allocation would need
> > to be 100% rock-solid reliable, otherwise the end user has a
> > non-functioning device.
>=20
> Yes, indeed. And you have to be careful as well how you move pages around=