Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760581AbYCHCmu (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:42:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757061AbYCHCmn (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:42:43 -0500 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:42622 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757004AbYCHCmn (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:42:43 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 18:42:21 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Andi Kleen cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [0/13] General DMA zone rework In-Reply-To: <200803071007.493903088@firstfloor.org> Message-ID: References: <200803071007.493903088@firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 664 Lines: 18 On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > The longer term goal is to convert all GFP_DMA allocations > to always specify the correct mask and then eventually remove > GFP_DMA. > > Especially I hope kmalloc/kmem_cache_alloc GFP_DMA can be > removed soon. I have some patches to eliminate those users. > Then slab wouldn't need to maintain DMA caches anymore. That would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for doing this. -- 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/