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 SMTP id 06E6F6B01F1 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:27:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C7B6B86.3080502@ladisch.de> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:27:50 +0200 From: Clemens Ladisch MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFCv4 0/6] The Contiguous Memory Allocator framework References: <1282310110.2605.976.camel@laptop> <20100825155814.25c783c7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20100825155814.25c783c7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Michal Nazarewicz , linux-mm@kvack.org, Daniel Walker , FUJITA Tomonori , Hans Verkuil , Jonathan Corbet , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Kyungmin Park , Marek Szyprowski , Mark Brown , Pawel Osciak , Russell King , Zach Pfeffer , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman List-ID: Andrew Morton wrote: > It would help (a lot) if we could get more attention and buyin and > fedback from the potential clients of this code. rmk's feedback is > valuable. Have we heard from the linux-media people? What other > subsystems might use it? ieee1394 perhaps? All FireWire controllers are OHCI and use scatter-gather lists. Most USB controllers require continuous memory for USB packets; the USB framework has its own DMA buffer cache. Some sound cards have no IOMMU; the ALSA framework preallocates buffers for those. Regards, Clemens -- 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