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

[Andi Kleen]

On Friday 22 September 2006 06:02, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> We have repeatedly discussed the problems of devices having varying 
> address range requirements for doing DMA.

We already have such an API. dma_alloc_coherent(). Device drivers
are not supposed to mess with GFP_DMA* directly anymore for quite
some time. 

> We would like for the device  
> drivers to have the ability to specify exactly which address range is 
> allowed. 

I actually have my doubts it is a good idea to add that now. The devices
with weird requirements are steadily going away.

-Andi

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