Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754685Ab0H3IeA (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:34:00 -0400 Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de ([80.67.31.28]:45010 "EHLO smtprelay01.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750867Ab0H3Id6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:33:58 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 401 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:33:58 EDT Message-ID: <4C7B6B86.3080502@ladisch.de> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:27:50 +0200 From: Clemens Ladisch User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Peter Zijlstra , Michal Nazarewicz , linux-mm@kvack.org, Daniel Walker , FUJITA Tomonori , Hans Verkuil , Jonathan Corbet , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Kyungmin Park , Marek Szyprowski , Mark Brown , Pawel Osciak , Russell King , Zach Pfeffer , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFCv4 0/6] The Contiguous Memory Allocator framework References: <1282310110.2605.976.camel@laptop> <20100825155814.25c783c7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20100825155814.25c783c7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: linux-kernel@cl.domainfactory-kunde.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 800 Lines: 22 Andrew Morton wrote: > It would help (a lot) if we could get more attention and buyin and > fedback from the potential clients of this code. rmk's feedback is > valuable. Have we heard from the linux-media people? What other > subsystems might use it? ieee1394 perhaps? All FireWire controllers are OHCI and use scatter-gather lists. Most USB controllers require continuous memory for USB packets; the USB framework has its own DMA buffer cache. Some sound cards have no IOMMU; the ALSA framework preallocates buffers for those. Regards, Clemens -- 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/