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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/14] sata_mv Use DMA memory pools for hardware memory
 tables
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:20:02 -0500
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
..
> The amount of memory used in the pre-existing configuration is small, it 
> is already allocated on a per-device basis, and it is statically 
> allocated -- meaning no worry about allocations failing inside of 
> interrupts or similar nastiness.
..

Note that there's also "no worry about allocations failing inside of 
interrupts or similar nastiness" with the patch posted, either.

Cheers