Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932193AbWIVVcx (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:32:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932194AbWIVVcx (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:32:53 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:53901 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932193AbWIVVcw (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:32:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:32:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Andi Kleen cc: Martin Bligh , Alan Cox , akpm@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , James Bottomley , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Initial alpha-0 for new page allocator API In-Reply-To: <200609222248.27700.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <4514441E.70207@mbligh.org> <200609222248.27700.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 616 Lines: 13 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@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/