On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote:There is a fundamental misunderstanding here: GFP_DMA allocations have nothing to do with DMA. Rather GFP_DMA means allocate memory in a special range of physical memory that is required by legacy devices that cannot use the high address bits for one or the other reason. Any regular memory can be used for DMA. Could you refactor the patch a bit? This is quite a big patch. --
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