From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [6/13] Core maskable allocator
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:33:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D17C4E.9000302@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080307173146.GI7365@one.firstfloor.org>
Andi Kleen wrote:
>>> + maskzone=size[MG] Set size of maskable DMA zone to size.
>>> + force Always allocate from the mask zone (for testing)
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ??
>
> What is your question?
That line seems odd. Is it correct?
Why 2 spaces between force and Always? Why is Always capitalized?
Could one of those words be dropped? They seem a bit redundant.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-07 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-07 9:07 [PATCH] [0/13] General DMA zone rework Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 9:07 ` [PATCH] [2/13] Make get_order(0) return 0 Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 9:07 ` [PATCH] [3/13] Make kvm bad_page symbol static Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 9:07 ` [PATCH] [4/13] Prepare page_alloc for the maskable allocator Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 18:19 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-03-07 18:36 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-03-07 19:02 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 9:07 ` [PATCH] [5/13] Add mask allocator statistics to vmstat.[ch] Andi Kleen
2008-03-08 2:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07 9:07 ` [PATCH] [6/13] Core maskable allocator Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 10:53 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-03-07 11:14 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 17:05 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-03-07 17:31 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 17:33 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2008-03-07 17:43 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 17:51 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-03-07 21:13 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-03-07 23:28 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-08 5:03 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-03-08 5:41 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-03-08 11:41 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-11 15:34 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-03-11 15:54 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 9:07 ` [PATCH] [7/13] Implement compat hooks for GFP_DMA Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 9:07 ` [PATCH] [8/13] Enable the mask allocator for x86 Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 18:32 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-03-07 19:03 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 19:09 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-03-08 2:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-08 6:35 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-08 7:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-08 11:54 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 17:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07 9:07 ` [PATCH] [9/13] Remove set_dma_reserve Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 9:07 ` [PATCH] [10/13] Switch the 32bit dma_alloc_coherent functions over to use the maskable allocator Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 9:07 ` [PATCH] [11/13] Switch x86-64 dma_alloc_coherent over to " Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 9:07 ` [PATCH] [12/13] Add vmstat statistics for new swiotlb code Andi Kleen
2008-03-08 2:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07 9:07 ` [PATCH] [13/13] Convert x86-64 swiotlb to use the mask allocator directly Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 15:18 ` [PATCH] [0/13] General DMA zone rework Rene Herman
2008-03-07 15:22 ` Rene Herman
2008-03-07 15:31 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 15:34 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 20:51 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-03-08 0:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 18:03 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-03-10 18:08 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-11 17:26 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-03-11 17:35 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-11 18:00 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-03-11 18:49 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-11 19:36 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-03-08 2:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-08 11:57 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 17:14 ` Christoph Lameter
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