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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:10:07 +0300
From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, minchan.kim@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] contigous big page allocator
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:07:12PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:01:43 +0200
>> Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
>>
>> > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> writes:
>> > >
>> > > What this wants to do:
>> > > allocates a contiguous chunk of pages larger than MAX_ORDER.
>> > > for device drivers (camera? etc..)
>> >
>> > I think to really move forward you need a concrete use case
>> > actually implemented in tree.
>>
>> As already pointed out, some embeded drivers need physcailly
>> contignous memory. Currenlty, they use hacky tricks (e.g. playing with
>> the boot memory allocators). There are several proposals for this like
>
> Are any of those in mainline?
drivers/video/omap/
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Felipe Contreras
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