linux-kernel - Re: ZONE

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609221139570.8356@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:40:59 -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:

> Right, the internals are arch specific and don't necessarily have to rely 
> on a zone, depending on their DMA constraints.

>From what I can see the arch specific do some tricks and then pick GFP_DMA 
or something to get memory that is appropriately limited. Having the 
ability to retrieve pages from a certain range from the page allocator 
would fix this issue and improve the ability of devices to allocate 
memory.

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