Re: [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator

2011-07-06 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > So, ARM is no different from x86, with the exception that the 16MB DMA > zone due to ISA ends up being different sizes on ARM depending on our > restrictions. Sounds good. Thank you. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator

2011-07-06 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Michal Nazarewicz wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:05:00 +0200, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > ZONE_DMA is a zone for memory of legacy (crippled) devices that cannot DMA > > into all of memory (and so is ZONE_DMA32). Memory from ZONE_NORMAL > > can be used

Re: [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator

2011-07-06 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > they typically don't fall into the highmem zone. As the dmabounce > > > code allocates from the DMA coherent allocator to provide it with > > > guaranteed DMA-able memory, that would be rather inconvenient. > > > > True. The dmabounce code