Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:33:29 -0400 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2.6.14-rc4] b44: alternate allocation option for DMA descriptors |
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 05:17:05PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> So basically, what you are doing is: if allocation fails, you try to get > memory using GFP_KERNEL. If it happens to be in the low 2Gb of memory, > use it, if not, drop it. > > Did I get that right ?
Yes, that is basically correct. I wish I had something more clever than that...suggestions welcome...
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