Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] contigous big page allocator

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:07:12PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:01:43 +0200
> Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >
> > > What this wants to do: 
> > >   allocates a contiguous chunk of pages larger than MAX_ORDER.
> > >   for device drivers (camera? etc..)
> > 
> > I think to really move forward you need a concrete use case
> > actually implemented in tree.
> 
> As already pointed out, some embeded drivers need physcailly
> contignous memory. Currenlty, they use hacky tricks (e.g. playing with
> the boot memory allocators). There are several proposals for this like

Are any of those in mainline? 

-Andi
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