On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 01:30:41PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > I really wonder what is the difference between this new API and > alloc_pages(GFP_DMA, n). Is this API really needed? I thought that this > is legacy thing to be removed one day...
The difference is that the pages returned are guranteed to be addressable by the devie. This is a very important difference that matters for a lot of use cases. _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
