From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:59:20 +0200 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Embed zone_id information within the zonelist->zones pointer Message-ID: <20070815125920.GD3406@bingen.suse.de> References: <20070813225841.GG3406@bingen.suse.de> <20070813230801.GH3406@bingen.suse.de> <20070813234322.GJ3406@bingen.suse.de> <20070814000041.GL3406@bingen.suse.de> <20070814002223.2d8d42c5@the-village.bc.nu> <20070814001441.GN3406@bingen.suse.de> <20070815113749.GA5862@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070815113749.GA5862@linux-mips.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ralf Baechle Cc: Andi Kleen , Alan Cox , Christoph Lameter , Mel Gorman , Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org List-ID: On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:37:49PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:14:41AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > meth is only used on SGI O2s which are not that slow and unlikely > > to work in tree anyways. > > O2 doesn't enable CONFIG_ZONE_DMA so there is no point in using GFP_DMA in > an O2-specific device driver. Will send out patch in separate mail. Great. BTW I suspect this is true for some other GFP_DMA usages too. Some driver writers seem to confuse it with the PCI DMA APIs or believe it is always needed for them. -Andi -- 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