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.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/