From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA
Date: 05 Mar 2003 13:53:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1046872389.14167.11.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030305084332.B22193@bitwizard.nl>
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 07:43, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> PCI devices on the restricted PCI bus (dev2) will have to pass a
> memory allocation descriptor that describes just the memory on
> that PCI bus, the other one (dev1) can pass a descriptor that
> prefers the non-shared memory, (leaving as much as possible for
> the devices on the other bus (bus2)), but
> reverts to the memory that the other devices can handle as well.
Which is actually what I said - you need to have the pci_alloc
equivalents for generic devices and pass the device you wish to
do the allocation for. How that allocation occurs doesn't
matter too much and can be arch specific
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-05 12:37 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
2003-02-28 14:12 ` 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 [this message]
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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