Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751360Ab0DMFx1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:53:27 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:53085 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750772Ab0DMFxY (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:53:24 -0400 Message-ID: <4BC4053D.2050805@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:46:37 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Fedora/3.0.4-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yinghai CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , David Miller , Linus Torvalds , Johannes Weiner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/39] lmb: Add lmb_find_area() References: <1270793048-23796-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1270793048-23796-8-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1271131543.13059.53.camel@pasglop> <4BC3F317.7030702@oracle.com> <1271135239.13059.69.camel@pasglop> <4BC40074.6030604@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <4BC40074.6030604@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 551 Lines: 17 On 04/12/2010 10:26 PM, Yinghai wrote: > > current generic lmb_find_area() is allocating from high to low. > x86 32bit seems have problem with that. Presumably because it fills up ZONE_DMA. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/