On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 04:05:13PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> The single atomic pool is allocated from the lowest zone possible since
> it is guaranteed to be applicable for any DMA allocation.
>
> Devices may allocate through the DMA API but not have a strict reliance
> on GFP_DMA memory.
The single atomic pool is allocated from the lowest zone possible since
it is guaranteed to be applicable for any DMA allocation.
Devices may allocate through the DMA API but not have a strict reliance
on GFP_DMA memory. Since the atomic pool will be used for all
non-blockable allocations,
