Re: Interacting with coherent memory on external devices

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Apr 27 2015 - 12:48:24 EST


On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Why would we want to avoid the sane approach that makes this thing
> work with the fewest required changes to core code?

Becaus new ZONEs are a pretty invasive change to the memory management and
because there are other ways to handle references to device specific
memory.

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