Re: [RFC] Initial alpha-0 for new page allocator API

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Sep 22 2006 - 17:33:11 EST


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.
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