From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm4
Date: 02 Dec 2004 03:01:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq0eki95dtt.fsf@jaguar.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041130102105.21750596.akpm@osdl.org>
>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
Andrew> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 09:50 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> >
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc2/2.6.10-rc2-mm4/
>> >
>> > - Various fixes and cleanups
>> >
>> > - A decent-sized x86_64 update.
>> >
>> > - x86_64 supports a fourth VM zone: ZONE_DMA32. This may affect
>> memory > reclaim, but shouldn't.
>>
>>
>> what is the purpose of such a zone ??
Andrew> For pages which have a physical address <4G. I assume this
Andrew> was motivated by the lack of an IOMMU on ia32e?
If we really need such a special case, wouldn't it be about time we
introduced a mask based allocation API instead? There's hardware out
there with 31 bit and 40 bit restrictions.
Doing this solely for the sake of nvidia is certainly questionable.
Regards,
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-02 8:01 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 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Andrew Morton
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 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
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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