linux-kernel - Re: ZONE

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Date:	Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@...el.com>
cc:	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...igh.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rohit Seth <rohitseth@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: ZONE_DMA

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Jesse Barnes wrote:

> Ok and right after I sent this my brain returned from vacation and I 
> remembered jejb's DMA allocation API.  It's powerful enough to cover most 
> driver use cases I think (users of GFP_DMA should probably be converted), 
> but for example block layer bounce buffering might need a different 
> interface as I see you've proposed in another mail.

Could you dig that out and give us some refs or even better port that 
thing to a current mm tree?
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