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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Ying Chen/Almaden/IBM <ying@almaden.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre,
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:25:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001002212521.A21473@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010021400420.22539-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:07:51PM -0300

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:07:51PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> However, I have no idea why your buffers and pagecache pages
> aren't bounced into the HIGHMEM zone ... They /should/ just

buffers/dcache/icache can't be allocated in HIGHMEM zone. Only page cache can
live in HIGHMEM by using bounce buffers for doing the I/O.

> be moved to the HIGHMEM zone where they don't bother the rest
> of the system, but for some reason it looks like that doesn't
> work right on your system ...

That shouldn't be the problem, the bounce buffer logic isn't changed since
test6 that is reported not to show the bad behaviour.

Andrea
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-02 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-02 16:40 Ying Chen/Almaden/IBM
2000-10-02 17:07 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-02 19:25   ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2000-10-02 19:28     ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-02 19:52       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-02 19:56         ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-02 19:01 Ying Chen/Almaden/IBM

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