Re: [PATCH/RFCv4 0/6] The Contiguous Memory Allocator framework

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To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFCv4 0/6] The Contiguous Memory Allocator framework
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:34:46 +0200
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On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 15:08 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:

> > That would be good.  Although I expect that the allocation would need
> > to be 100% rock-solid reliable, otherwise the end user has a
> > non-functioning device.
> 
> Yes, indeed. And you have to be careful as well how you move pages around

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