Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:42:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:42:32 -0500 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:54929 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:42:32 -0500 Subject: Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA From: Alan Cox To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030228143405.I23865@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20030228064631.G23865@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20030228141234.H23865@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <1046445897.16599.60.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030228143405.I23865@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1046447737.16599.83.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 (1.2.1-4) Date: 28 Feb 2003 15:55:37 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 649 Lines: 16 On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 14:34, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > umm. are you volunteering to convert drivers/net/macmace.c to the pci_* > API then? also, GFP_DMA is used on, eg, s390 to get memory below 2GB and > on ia64 to get memory below 4GB. The ia64 is a fine example of how broken it is. People have to hack around with GFP_DMA meaning different things on ia64 to everything else. It needs to die. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/