From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve pci_alloc_consistent wrapper on preemptive kernels
Date: 30 Jul 2004 16:13:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091218419.1968.46.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040730130238.0f68f5e7.akpm@osdl.org>
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 16:02, Andrew Morton wrote:
> We're paying for past sins here. I think it would be better to create a
> new version of pci_alloc_consistent() which takes gfp_flags, then migrate
> the drivers you care about to use it. That way the benefit is available on
> non-preempt kernels too.
>
> The ultimate aim of course would be to deprecate then remove the old
> function.
True, that's why it was added for dma_alloc_coherent().
Is there any need for a new wrapper? Why not just use
dma_alloc_coherent() from now on?
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-30 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-30 17:02 [PATCH] Improve pci_alloc_consistent wrapper on preemptive kernels Andi Kleen
2004-07-30 17:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-30 17:43 ` Andi Kleen
2004-07-30 18:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-30 18:47 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-07-30 19:28 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-07-30 21:42 ` Andi Kleen
2004-07-30 20:02 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-30 20:13 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-07-30 20:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-30 20:28 ` James Bottomley
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2004-07-30 18:34 ` Andi Kleen
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