Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] mm/slub: do not create dma-kmalloc if no managed pages in DMA zone

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Dec 15 2021 - 02:27:53 EST


On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 11:07:34AM -0600, john.p.donnelly@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Is CONFIG_ZONE_DMA even needed anymore in x86_64 ?

Yes. There are still plenty of addressing challenged devices, mostly
ISA-like but also a few PCI/PCIe ones.