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SubjectRe: [patch] mm: pageable memory allocator (for DRM-GEM?)
Jerome Glisse wrote:
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> Also what about a uncached page allocator ? As some drivers might need
> them, there is no number but i think their was some concern that changing
> PAT too often might be costly and that we would better have a poll of
> such pages.

IA64 has an uncached allocator. See arch/ia64/include/asm/incached.h and
arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c. Probably not exactly what you want but its a
starting point.




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