From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dax.scot.redhat.com (sct@dax.scot.redhat.com [195.89.149.242]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA09651 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:15:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:14:49 GMT Message-Id: <199901121814.SAA11098@dax.scot.redhat.com> From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: question about try_to_swap_out() In-Reply-To: <199901121658.KAA28147@feta.cs.utexas.edu> References: <199901121658.KAA28147@feta.cs.utexas.edu> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Paul R. Wilson" Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi, On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:58:52 -0600, "Paul R. Wilson" said: > I would think that it could be significant if you're skipping DMA > pages, which are valuable. You want to get them back in a timely > manner, so you want to go ahead and age them normally. We don't ever do that. We can _require_ a DMA allocation, but we never explicitly avoid allocating DMA pages. --Stephen -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org