From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
akpm@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Initial alpha-0 for new page allocator API
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:17:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609220817.59801.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609212052280.4736@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Friday 22 September 2006 06:02, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> We have repeatedly discussed the problems of devices having varying
> address range requirements for doing DMA.
We already have such an API. dma_alloc_coherent(). Device drivers
are not supposed to mess with GFP_DMA* directly anymore for quite
some time.
> We would like for the device
> drivers to have the ability to specify exactly which address range is
> allowed.
I actually have my doubts it is a good idea to add that now. The devices
with weird requirements are steadily going away.
-Andi
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
akpm@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Initial alpha-0 for new page allocator API
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:17:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609220817.59801.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609212052280.4736@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Friday 22 September 2006 06:02, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> We have repeatedly discussed the problems of devices having varying
> address range requirements for doing DMA.
We already have such an API. dma_alloc_coherent(). Device drivers
are not supposed to mess with GFP_DMA* directly anymore for quite
some time.
> We would like for the device
> drivers to have the ability to specify exactly which address range is
> allowed.
I actually have my doubts it is a good idea to add that now. The devices
with weird requirements are steadily going away.
-Andi
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-22 4:02 [RFC] Initial alpha-0 for new page allocator API Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 4:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 6:17 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-09-22 6:17 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 16:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 16:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 19:10 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 19:10 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 19:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 19:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 19:24 ` Martin Bligh
2006-09-22 19:24 ` Martin Bligh
2006-09-22 20:10 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-22 20:10 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-22 20:02 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 20:02 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 20:14 ` Martin Bligh
2006-09-22 20:14 ` Martin Bligh
2006-09-22 20:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 20:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 20:41 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-22 20:41 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-22 21:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 21:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 21:14 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-22 21:14 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-22 21:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 21:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 20:48 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 20:48 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 21:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 21:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 21:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 21:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 23:34 ` More thoughts on getting rid of ZONE_DMA Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 23:34 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-23 0:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-23 0:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-23 0:39 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-23 0:39 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-23 0:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-23 0:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-23 0:37 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-23 0:37 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-24 2:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-24 2:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-24 2:36 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-09-24 2:36 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-09-24 7:26 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-24 7:26 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-24 7:19 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-24 7:19 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 17:36 ` [RFC] Initial alpha-0 for new page allocator API Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 17:36 ` Christoph Lameter
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