Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755459AbYCJRPx (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:15:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755187AbYCJRPT (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:15:19 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:39891 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755181AbYCJRPS (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:15:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:14:43 -0700 (PDT) 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: <20080308115703.GD27074@one.firstfloor.org> Message-ID: References: <200803071007.493903088@firstfloor.org> <20080308115703.GD27074@one.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: 720 Lines: 16 On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > I'm afraid it would not help you directly because you would still need > to maintain that code for s390 (seems to be a heavy GFP_DMA user) > and probably some other architectures (unless you can get these > maintainers to get rid of GFP_DMA too) With my plan it can be just ifdefed > and the ifdef not enabled on x86. Undefining ZONE_DMA will remove support for GFP_DMA from the slab allocators. Your patch is already doing that. -- 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/