From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm4
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:46:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041130114633.22eee22d.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101836642.25617.63.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Maw, 2004-11-30 at 18:32, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > "This helps mainly graphic drivers who really need a lot of memory below
> > the 4GB area. Previous they could only use IOMMU+16MB GFP_DMA, which was
> > not enough memory."
> >
> > > Is there code using the zone GFP mask yet ??
> >
> > Nope.
>
> You mean its a private hook for a proprietary graphics driver, which
> because it is that can't use it anyway ?
I wasn't aware that this is what I meant. I dunno what graphics drivers
Andi needs it for, and he is away for a couple of weeks. It's an
experimental patch, in there for testing.
> That sounds dubious to me as policy has always been to avoid such hooks.
I don't know why you're assuming that it is "such a hook". Sticking
"gfp_dma32" into google indicates that the applications are quite
different.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-30 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-30 17:50 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Andrew Morton
2004-11-30 18:06 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-30 18:21 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Andrew Morton
2004-11-30 18:25 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-30 18:32 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Andrew Morton
2004-11-30 17:44 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Alan Cox
2004-11-30 19:46 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-11-30 19:36 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-30 18:48 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-02 8:03 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Jes Sorensen
2004-12-02 8:01 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Jes Sorensen
2004-11-30 18:31 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-30 18:38 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Alan Cox
2004-11-30 18:30 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-30 19:18 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Stephen Smalley
2004-11-30 19:29 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Chris Wright
2004-11-30 19:43 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-30 19:55 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Jeff Mahoney
2004-12-01 23:32 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Jeffrey Mahoney
2004-12-02 1:01 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Chris Wright
2004-12-02 1:11 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Jeff Mahoney
2004-12-02 13:32 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Stephen Smalley
2004-12-02 13:15 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Stephen Smalley
2004-12-07 19:57 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Jeff Mahoney
2004-12-07 20:28 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Stephen Smalley
2004-12-07 22:46 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Jeff Mahoney
2004-12-08 13:28 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Stephen Smalley
2004-11-30 23:07 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 - cifs.ko needs unknown symbol CIFSSMBSetPosixACL Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-11-30 23:53 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-01 1:37 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Matthew Dobson
2004-12-03 9:23 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Andi Kleen
2004-12-01 8:43 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 - cifs.ko needs unknown symbol CIFSSMBSetPosixACL Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-12-01 21:10 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Adrian Bunk
2004-12-01 22:26 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Bill Davidsen
2004-12-02 0:18 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Bjorn Helgaas
2004-12-01 22:26 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4: NUMA-related oops on dual-Opteron Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-12-02 1:01 ` [PATCH] make gconfig work with gtk-2.4 J.A. Magallon
2004-12-02 8:21 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-02 12:56 ` Roman Zippel
2004-12-02 13:22 ` J.A. Magallon
2004-12-03 9:06 ` [PATCH hostap] fix Kconfig typos and missing select CRYPTO (was: 2.6.10-rc2-mm4) Joshua Kwan
2004-12-03 9:50 ` oom goodness Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Chris Ross
2004-12-03 16:07 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-12-03 22:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-09 11:07 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 William Lee Irwin III
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-30 18:29 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Petr Vandrovec
2004-11-30 18:38 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Alan Cox
2004-12-03 21:59 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Terence Ripperda
2004-12-05 19:46 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Alan Cox
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2004-12-14 19:00 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Andi Kleen
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