From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:32:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC] Initial alpha-0 for new page allocator API In-Reply-To: <200609222248.27700.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <4514441E.70207@mbligh.org> <200609222248.27700.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Martin Bligh , Alan Cox , akpm@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , James Bottomley , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > Looks like a good start. Surprising how little additional code it is. Gosh. I just looked at x86_64 dma_alloc_coherent. There is mind boogling series of tricks with __GFP_DMA and GFP_DMA32 going on. Could you get me a patch that sorts this out if we have alloc_pages_range()? I would expect that the will become much simpler. -- 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