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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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