From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:25:21 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre, Message-ID: <20001002212521.A21473@athlon.random> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:07:51PM -0300 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Ying Chen/Almaden/IBM , linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/