On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 07:25 -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > I really don't think we *want* to say we support higher order allocations
> > absolutely robustly, nor do we want people using them if possible. Because
> > we don't. Even with your patches.
> >
> > Ingo also brought up this point at Ottawa.
>
> Some of the driver issues can be fixed by scatter-gather DMA *if* the
> h/w supports it. But what exactly do you propose to do about kernel
> stacks, etc? By the time you've fixed all the individual usages of it,
> frankly, it would be easier to provide a generic mechanism to fix the
> problem ...
That generic mechanism is the kernel virtual remapping. However, it has
a runtime performance cost, which is increased TLB footprint inside the
kernel, and a more costly implementation of __pa() and __va().
I'll admit, I'm biased toward partial solutions without runtime cost
before we start incurring constant cost across the entire kernel,
especially when those partial solutions have other potential in-kernel
users.
-- Dave
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