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

Martin Bligh
2006-09-22T20:14:22Z

> And is fine with 16MB anyways I think.
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>>- Some aacraid, mostly only for control structures. Those found on 64bit
>>are probably fine with slow alloc.
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> That is the only case where there are rumours they are not fine with 16MB.
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>>- Broadcom stuff - not sure if 30 or 31bit, around today and on 64bit
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> b44 is 30bit. That's true. I even got one here.
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> But it doesn't count really because we can handle it fine with existing
> 16MB GFP_DMA

The problem is that GFP_DMA does not mean 16MB on all architectures.

M.