linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [scsi] Remove __GFP

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705221443030.16285@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 May 2007 14:44:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>
cc:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [scsi] Remove __GFP_DMA

On Mon, 21 May 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote:

> [PATCH] [scsi] Remove __GFP_DMA
> 
> After 821de3a27bf33f11ec878562577c586cd5f83c64, it's not necessary to alloate a
> DMA buffer any more in sd.c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>

Great that avoids a DMA kmalloc slab. Any other GFP_DMAs left in the scsi 
layer?

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
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