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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706111828360.24808@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:30:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...e.de, muli@...ibm.com, asit.k.mallick@...el.com,
	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com, ashok.raj@...el.com,
	shaohua.li@...el.com, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [Intel-IOMMU 02/10] Library routine for pre-allocat pool handling

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> the problem with that is that if anything downstream from the iommu layer ALSO
> needs memory, we've now eaten up the last free page and things go splat.

Hmmm... We need something like a reservation system right? Higher levels 
in a atomic context could register their future needs. Then we can avoid 
overallocating in the iommu layer.

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