From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: 2 Oct 2001 10:35:25 -0000 Message-ID: <20011002103525.12117.qmail@mailweb12.rediffmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "amey d inamdar" Reply-To: "amey d inamdar" Subject: How zone_balane_ratio is decided? Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: iamey@rediffmail.com List-ID: Hello there, In a code of zone allocator free_area_init_core() minimum pages, low pages and high pages for any zone are decided using mask = realpages/zone_balance_ratio minpages=mask low pages=2*mask high pages=3*mask how zone balance ratio is decided for each zone? What is its significance? Please tell as soon as possible. I am unable to go further reading code. Thanking you in anticipation - Amey -- 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-mm.org/