From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
jgarzik@pobox.com, pp@ee.oulu.fi
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.14-rc4] b44: alternate allocation option for DMA descriptors
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:33:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051020143326.GB25010@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1129792626.7620.248.camel@gaston>
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 05:17:05PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> So basically, what you are doing is: if allocation fails, you try to get
> memory using GFP_KERNEL. If it happens to be in the low 2Gb of memory,
> use it, if not, drop it.
>
> Did I get that right ?
Yes, that is basically correct. I wish I had something more clever
than that...suggestions welcome...
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-20 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-19 1:30 [patch 2.6.14-rc4] b44: alternate allocation option for DMA descriptors John W. Linville
2005-10-19 2:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-20 7:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-10-20 14:33 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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