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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA
Date: 28 Feb 2003 09:56:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73heao7ph2.fsf@amdsimf.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Matthew Wilcox's message of "28 Feb 2003 07:48:41 +0100"

Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:
> -
> +#define GFP_ATOMIC_DMA (GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_DMA)
> +#define GFP_KERNEL_DMA (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_DMA)
> 
> combined with changing some users to use __GFP_DMA if they really do mean
> the bitmask.  Comments?

Sounds like a good 2.7.x early project. Currently we still have too much
driver breakage for the next release to break even more right now.

-Andi

       reply	other threads:[~2003-02-28  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20030228064631.G23865@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-02-28  8:56 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-02-28 14:12   ` Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA Matthew Wilcox
2003-02-28 15:24     ` Alan Cox
2003-02-28 14:34       ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-02-28 15:55         ` Alan Cox
2003-02-28 14:56           ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-28 15:25             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-28 15:30               ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-28 15:34               ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-28 15:49                 ` Eli Carter
2003-02-28 16:03                   ` Russell King
2003-02-28 16:45                 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-28 15:31             ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-03-04 17:56           ` Rogier Wolff
2003-03-04 23:09             ` Alan Cox
2003-03-05  7:43               ` Rogier Wolff
2003-03-05 13:53                 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-28 15:44       ` Dmitry A. Fedorov
2003-02-28 15:58         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-28 18:17           ` Deepak Saxena
2003-02-28 18:27             ` Deepak Saxena
2003-02-28 19:52             ` Russell King
     [not found]           ` <mailman.1046456425.7772.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-02-28 20:51             ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-02-28 22:11               ` Russell King
2003-02-28 16:05         ` Russell King
2003-02-28 17:27           ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-02-28 17:45         ` Alan Cox
2003-02-28  6:46 Matthew Wilcox

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