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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slob: poor man's NUMA, take 5.
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:39:54 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706150737190.7471@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070615082237.GA29917@linux-sh.org>

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Paul Mundt wrote:

> + * %GFP_DMA - Allocation suitable for DMA.
> + *
> + * %GFP_DMA32 - Large allocation suitable for DMA (depending on platform).

GFP_DMA32 is not supported in the slab allocators.

GFP_DMA should only be used for kmalloc caches. Otherwise use a slab 
created with SLAB_DMA.

> + *
> + * %__GFP_ZERO - Zero the allocation on success.
> + *

__GFP_ZERO is not support for slab allocations.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-15 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-15  3:34 [PATCH] slob: poor man's NUMA, take 5 Paul Mundt
2007-06-15  4:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-15  5:39   ` Paul Mundt
2007-06-15 14:31     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-15  6:44 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-15  8:22   ` Paul Mundt
2007-06-15 14:39     ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-06-18  2:39       ` Paul Mundt
2007-06-19  3:52         ` Paul Mundt
2007-06-19  3:57           ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-19  4:01           ` Christoph Lameter

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