From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King Message-Id: <199911141217.MAA00054@raistlin.arm.linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: [patch] zoned-2.3.28-G5, zone-allocator, highmem, bootmem fixes Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:17:16 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: from "Ingo Molnar" at Nov 14, 99 11:43:25 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: cw@f00f.org, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, sct@redhat.com, hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com List-ID: Ingo Molnar writes: > no. The zone stuff is completely transparent, all GFP_* flags (should) > work just as before. All interfaces were preserved. So shortly before 2.4 > it is not acceptable to break established APIs. (neither is it necessery) Except discontiguous memory systems, which I've now got a real bad headache for and am currently resorting to a fixed zone-size until the new stuff can be fixed. Dunno if this is going to work yet, since the free watermarks are going to be just wrong. _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/