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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	akpm@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: More thoughts on getting rid of ZONE_DMA
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:37:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609230237.44132.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609221724580.10484@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Saturday 23 September 2006 02:25, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Another solution may be to favor high adresses in the page allocator?

We used to do that, but it got changed because IO request merging without
IOMMU works much better if you start low and go up instead of the other
way round.

-Andi

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-23  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-22  4:02 [RFC] Initial alpha-0 for new page allocator API Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22  6:17 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 16:35   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 19:10     ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 19:17       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 19:24       ` Martin Bligh
2006-09-22 20:10       ` Alan Cox
2006-09-22 20:02         ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 20:14           ` Martin Bligh
2006-09-22 20:23             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 20:41               ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-22 21:01                 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 21:14                   ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-22 21:21                     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 20:48               ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 21:13                 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 21:32                 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 23:34               ` More thoughts on getting rid of ZONE_DMA Andi Kleen
2006-09-23  0:23                 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-23  0:39                   ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-23  0:25                 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-23  0:37                   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-09-24  2:13                 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-24  2:36                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-09-24  7:26                     ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-24  7:19                   ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 17:36   ` [RFC] Initial alpha-0 for new page allocator API Christoph Lameter

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