Re: [RFC] Initial alpha-0 for new page allocator API

Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22T21:32:39Z

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Looks like a good start. Surprising how little additional code it is.

Gosh. I just looked at x86_64 dma_alloc_coherent. There is mind boogling
series of tricks with __GFP_DMA and GFP_DMA32 going on. Could you get me a
patch that sorts this out if we have alloc_pages_range()? I would expect
that the will become much simpler.