Re: __get_free_pages: can GFP_DMA omit GFP_KERNEL and GFP_ATOMIC?

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> all right, then some of those __get_free_pages() calls would translate
> to calls of the form __get_dma_pages(0, ...) -- is that what you're
> saying?  or would it be equivalent and preferable to put GFP_ATOMIC in
> there just so it looks not so weird?

Put GFP_ATOMIC in there so that it does not look weird.

GFP_ATOMIC & ~__GFP_HIGH == GFP_NOWAIT

So these should have GFP_NOWAIT as far as I can tell?

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