Re: [PATCH] [0/13] General DMA zone rework

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Mar 07 2008 - 21:42:51 EST


On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:

> The longer term goal is to convert all GFP_DMA allocations
> to always specify the correct mask and then eventually remove
> GFP_DMA.
>
> Especially I hope kmalloc/kmem_cache_alloc GFP_DMA can be
> removed soon. I have some patches to eliminate those users.
> Then slab wouldn't need to maintain DMA caches anymore.

That would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for doing this.


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