| Date | Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:42:58 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [discuss] Re: 32-bit dma allocations on 64-bit platforms |
| |
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:36:47 +0200 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> At Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:29:00 +0200, > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > Can't it be called with GFP_KERNEL at first, then with GFP_DMA if the > > > allocated pages are out of dma mask, just like in pci-gart.c? > > > (with ifdef x86-64) > > > > That won't work reliable enough in extreme cases. > > Well, it's not perfect, but it'd be far better than GFP_DMA only :)
The only description for this patch I can think of is "russian roulette"
-Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|