Re: USB contigmalloc()

[Francois Tigeot <ftigeot%wolfpond.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 05:11:36PM +0000, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 05:33:27PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > Matthew Dillon implemented a solution for USB/graphics cards problem
> > stemming from the fact that some time after the boot, they can't
> > acquire enough contiguous memory.
> 
> It's really Not Good Enough.  These drivers really need to grow proper
> scatter/gather support.

Iirc, contigmalloc was implemented mainly for the radeon drm driver

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Francois Tigeot