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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:02:55 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] DMA: reduce the number of memory allocations
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 05:46:38PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 04:40:15PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > Allocate the bitmap in dma_declare_coherent_memory() together with the struct
> > > dma_coherent_mem object.
> > 
> > You describe what you did, but _why_ are you doing it?
> 
> Well, to me the subject "_reduce_ the number..." is already a reason 
> enough - the fewer kmalloc's of 20 bytes - the better, I think. But if you 
> like, I can update the description too.

Yes, as I missed that, others might as well :)

thanks,

greg k-h