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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next prev parent 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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