Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] Memory Management Documentation effort

2011-09-08 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:23:47PM +0300, Ilias Biris wrote: > I have put together a wiki page with information on the Release for the > patches to be tested while waiting for the upstreaming to the mainline > to happen. The page is > https://wiki.linaro.org/OfficeofCTO/MemoryManagement/ReleaseInfo

Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] Memory Management Documentation effort

2011-09-08 Thread Sumit Semwal
Hello Benjamin, Excellent effort on the slides. On 8 September 2011 01:49, Ilias Biris wrote: > On 07/09/11 19:18, Benjamin Gaignard wrote: > > > Additional question: > > - where can we found git tree with CMA, DMA_Buf and DMA IOMMU ? > > > > Jesse had mentioned he would be creating his own tre

Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] Memory Management Documentation effort

2011-09-07 Thread Ilias Biris
Forgot to mention: I have put together a wiki page with information on the Release for the patches to be tested while waiting for the upstreaming to the mainline to happen. The page is https://wiki.linaro.org/OfficeofCTO/MemoryManagement/ReleaseInfo Thanks, Ilias On 07/09/11 23:19, Ilias Biris w

Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] Memory Management Documentation effort

2011-09-07 Thread Ilias Biris
On 07/09/11 19:18, Benjamin Gaignard wrote: > Additional question: > - where can we found git tree with CMA, DMA_Buf and DMA IOMMU ? > Jesse had mentioned he would be creating his own tree with the patches applied - certainly the CMA should be there already based on our discussion. The tree sho

Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] Memory Management Documentation effort

2011-09-07 Thread Benjamin Gaignard
Hi, I have updated slides for CMA and DMA_Buffer. I hope it will make more clear why DMA_Buffer is needed. Yes CMA grab memory at boot time, mark it with MIGRATE_CMA and give it back to the system. I don't know what happen when the system don't have enough space to allocate unmovable pages but f

Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] Memory Management Documentation effort

2011-09-06 Thread David Rusling
Benjamin, I was reading this when I saw Kiko's response, so he saved me some effort. Really good. It assumes that you understand the general memory allocator and other memory types, it might be an idea to sketch this out. More comments inline. Dave On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 19:40 -0300,

Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] Memory Management Documentation effort

2011-09-06 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 02:13:38PM +0200, Benjamin Gaignard wrote: > I'm writing documentation about CMA ( > https://wiki.linaro.org/OfficeofCTO/MemoryManagement?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=CMA.pdf > ) > and DMA_Buf ( > https://wiki.linaro.org/OfficeofCTO/MemoryManagement?action=AttachFile&do=