linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Initial alpha-0 for new page allocator API

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Date:	Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:32:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...igh.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, akpm@...gle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...eleye.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Initial alpha-0 for new page allocator API

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Looks like a good start. Surprising how little additional code it is.

Gosh. I just looked at x86_64 dma_alloc_coherent. There is mind boogling 
series of tricks with __GFP_DMA and GFP_DMA32 going on. Could you get me a 
patch that sorts this out if we have alloc_pages_range()? I would expect 
that the will become much simpler.
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