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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jerome Glisse <glisse@freedesktop.org>
Cc: "Thomas Hellström" <thomas@tungstengraphics.com>,
	"Nick Piggin" <npiggin@suse.de>,
	keith.packard@intel.com, eric@anholt.net, hugh@veritas.com,
	hch@infradead.org, airlied@linux.ie, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org,
	dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	"Linux Memory Management List" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: pageable memory allocator (for DRM-GEM?)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:18:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D8ECB3.8070109@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080923133137.c9e1f171.glisse@freedesktop.org>

Jerome Glisse wrote:
> 
> Also what about a uncached page allocator ? As some drivers might need
> them, there is no number but i think their was some concern that changing
> PAT too often might be costly and that we would better have a poll of
> such pages.

IA64 has an uncached allocator. See arch/ia64/include/asm/incached.h and
arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c. Probably not exactly what you want but its a
starting point.


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-23 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-23  9:10 Nick Piggin
2008-09-23 10:21 ` Thomas Hellström
2008-09-23 11:31   ` Jerome Glisse
2008-09-23 13:18     ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-09-25  0:18   ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-25  7:19     ` Thomas Hellström
2008-09-25 14:38       ` Keith Packard
2008-09-25 15:39         ` Thomas Hellström
2008-09-25 22:41           ` Dave Airlie
2008-09-23 15:50 ` Keith Packard
2008-09-23 18:29   ` Jerome Glisse
2008-09-25  0:30   ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-25  1:20     ` Keith Packard
2008-09-25  2:30       ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-25  2:43         ` Keith Packard
2008-09-25  3:07           ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-25  6:16             ` Keith Packard
2008-09-25  8:45 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-09-30  1:10 ` Eric Anholt
2008-10-02 17:15   ` Jesse Barnes
2008-10-03  5:17     ` Keith Packard
2008-10-03  6:40       ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-23  9:10 Nick Piggin

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