From: "Michal Nazarewicz" <mina86@mina86.com>
To: "Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"Christoph Lameter" <cl@linux.com>
Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
"'Daniel Walker'" <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
"'Jonathan Corbet'" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"'Mel Gorman'" <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
"'Chunsang Jeong'" <chunsang.jeong@linaro.org>,
"'Jesse Barker'" <jesse.barker@linaro.org>,
"'KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki'" <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, "'Kyungmin Park'" <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
"'Ankita Garg'" <ankita@in.ibm.com>,
"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Marek Szyprowski" <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:09:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vx7ghajd3l0zgt@mnazarewicz-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1107061100290.17624@router.home>
On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:05:00 +0200, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
> ZONE_DMA is a zone for memory of legacy (crippled) devices that cannot
> DMA into all of memory (and so is ZONE_DMA32). Memory from ZONE_NORMAL
> can be used for DMA as well and a fully capable device would be expected
> to handle any memory in the system for DMA transfers.
>
> "guaranteed" dmaable memory? DMA abilities are device specific. Well
> maybe you can call ZONE_DMA memory to be guaranteed if you guarantee
> that any device must at mininum be able to perform DMA into ZONE_DMA
> memory. But there may not be much of that memory around so you would
> want to limit the use of that scarce resource.
As pointed in Marek's other mail, this reasoning is not helping in any
way. In case of video codec on various Samsung devices (and from some
other threads this is not limited to Samsung), the codec needs separate
buffers in separate memory banks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-06 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-05 7:41 [PATCHv11 0/8] Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm: move some functions from memory_hotplug.c to page_isolation.c Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm: alloc_contig_freed_pages() added Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm: alloc_contig_range() added Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 12:27 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm: MIGRATE_CMA isolation functions added Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 10:24 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:02 ` [PATCH 6/8 RESEND] " Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 11:33 ` [PATCH 6/8] " Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-05 12:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 12:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-05 13:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-08 17:25 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-12 13:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-08-03 17:43 ` James Bottomley
2011-09-26 12:06 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-09-26 13:00 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 13:58 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-06 14:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-06 14:23 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 14:37 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-06 14:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-09 14:57 ` Janusz Krzysztofik
2011-07-11 13:47 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-11 19:01 ` Janusz Krzysztofik
2011-07-12 5:34 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-06 14:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-06 15:48 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 16:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-07-06 16:09 ` Michal Nazarewicz [this message]
2011-07-06 16:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-07-06 17:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 19:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-07-06 17:02 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 16:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-06 19:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-06 20:23 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-07 5:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-06 14:56 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-06 15:37 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 15:47 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-14 12:29 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 7/8] ARM: integrate CMA with dma-mapping subsystem Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 8/8] ARM: S5PV210: example of CMA private area for FIMC device on Goni board Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 12:07 ` [PATCHv11 0/8] Contiguous Memory Allocator Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 12:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 22:11 ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-07 7:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-11 13:24 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-20 8:57 [PATCHv12 " Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-20 8:57 ` [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add " Marek Szyprowski
2011-08-19 14:27 [PATCHv15 0/8] " Marek Szyprowski
2011-08-19 14:27 ` [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add " Marek Szyprowski
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