[PATCH 08/10] mm: cma: Contiguous Memory Allocator added

Michal Nazarewicz mina86 at mina86.com
Tue Jun 14 09:55:19 EDT 2011


On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:49:29 +0200, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> Please explain the exact requirements that lead you to defining multiple
> contexts.

Some devices may have access only to some banks of memory.  Some devices
may use different banks of memory for different purposes.

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