Re: [PATCH 3/4] Embed zone_id information within the zonelist->zones pointer

Christoph Lameter
2007-08-13T23:16:17Z

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > > I converted all of those that applied to x86.
> >
> > Converted to what?
>
> Hmm, do you actually read my emails? I spelled that out at least two
> times now. It's converted to a new dma page allocator that specifies
> an address mask.

Yes I do but frankly I am weirdly puzzled by what is going on.

> > drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c: xl_priv->xl_tx_ring = kmalloc((sizeof(struct xl_tx_desc) * XL_TX_RING_SIZE) + 7, GFP_DMA | GFP_KERNEL) ;
> > drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c: xl_priv->xl_rx_ring = kmalloc((sizeof(struct xl_rx_desc) * XL_RX_RING_SIZE) +7, GFP_DMA | GFP_KERNEL) ;
> >
> > Tokenring not supported on x86?
>
> It can be easily converted to a page allocation.

Ok then lets do it.