Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:55:57 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/11] unpaged: unifdefed PageCompound |
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, David S. Miller wrote: >> I think this is a good change regardless of the VM_RESERVED issues. >> I've been wanting to use this facility in some sparc64 bits in >> the past, for example. But since it was HUGETLB guarded that >> wasn't possible.
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:15:13PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I've only just found that we have to supply the __GFP_COMP flag to get > this working. And one of the routes through snd_dma_alloc_pages goes > to sbus_alloc_consistent. Would you be happy for me to send Andrew a > patch with sparc and sparc64 sbus_alloc_consistent including __GFP_COMP? > Ought I to do the same in the sparc and sparc64 pci_alloc_consistent??
I usually end up deferring to Dave on the driver issues, but this time I can independently agree in an informed manner.
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