On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 09:41:48AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
The Contiguous Memory Allocator is a set of helper functions for DMA mapping framework that improves allocations of contiguous memory chunks.
CMA grabs memory on system boot, marks it with CMA_MIGRATE_TYPE and gives back to the system. Kernel is allowed to allocate movable pages within CMA's managed memory so that it can be used for example for page cache when DMA mapping do not use it. On dma_alloc_from_contiguous() request such pages are migrated out of CMA area to free required contiguous block and fulfill the request. This allows to allocate large contiguous chunks of memory at any time assuming that there is enough free memory available in the system.
This code is heavily based on earlier works by Michal Nazarewicz.
And how are you addressing the technical concerns about aliasing of cache attributes which I keep bringing up with this and you keep ignoring and telling me that I'm standing in your way.