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

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Dec 14 23:27:44 PST 2021


On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 11:07:34AM -0600, john.p.donnelly at oracle.com 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.



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