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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>,
	Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	andi-suse@firstfloor.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.26: x86/kernel/pci_dma.c: gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY ?
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 23:02:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080525230216.1fe1b216@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080525212350.GB8405@one.firstfloor.org>

> No it doesn't because the lower zone protection basically never puts
> anything that is not GFP_DMA into the 16MB zone.
> 
> Just check yourself on your machine using sysrq.
> 
> That was one of the motivations behind the mask allocator design.

Try a 16MB embedded PC 

Alan

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-25 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-21 11:30 2.6.26: x86/kernel/pci_dma.c: gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY ? Miquel van Smoorenburg
2008-05-21 12:49 ` Glauber Costa
2008-05-22  8:47   ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-22 19:25     ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2008-05-24 19:38       ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2008-05-25 16:35         ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-25 19:55           ` Alan Cox
2008-05-25 21:23             ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-25 22:02               ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-05-22 19:58     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-22 22:59       ` Andi Kleen

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