[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 1/11] IB/ipoib: high dma support

Eli Cohen eli at dev.mellanox.co.il
Fri Sep 28 06:43:22 PDT 2007


So after all we do need a flag?

On 9/27/07, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote:
>
> > > +          struct page *page = alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
> >
> > Isn't this likely to hurt performance on 32 bit systems?
>
> Yeah, I guess the kernel would need to kmap the data in most cases
> anyway.  So there's not much point in trying to use high memory.
>
> - R.
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