From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Define CONFIG_BOUNCE to avoid useless inclusion of bounce buffer logic.
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 09:08:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070522070858.GJ4705@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705212100420.24947@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Mon, May 21 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The bounce buffer logic is included on systems that do not need it.
> If a system does not have zones like ZONE_DMA and ZONE_HIGHMEM that
> can lead to the use of bounce buffers then there is no need to reserve
> memory pools etc etc. This is true f.e. for SGI Altix.
>
> Also nicifies the Makefile and gets rid of the tricky "and" there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-22 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-22 4:03 Christoph Lameter
2007-05-22 4:39 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22 5:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 14:07 ` Russell King
2007-05-23 17:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23 22:58 ` Russell King
2007-05-23 23:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 7:50 ` Russell King
2007-05-24 3:47 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-05-24 4:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-03 22:24 ` Russell King
2007-05-24 9:57 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-22 7:08 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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