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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Scott Kaplan <sfkaplan@cs.amherst.edu>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Avoiding the highmem mess
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:59:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D6FEAAF.E30967AD@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0334AD85-BC63-11D6-B00B-000393829FA4@cs.amherst.edu>

Scott Kaplan wrote:
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> Is there an easy way to avoid ZONE_HIGHMEM?  Is it as easy as avoiding
> machines that have more than 1 GB of physical memory so that only
> ZONE_NORMAL is used?

Sure.  Or just disable highmem in kernel config.

But be aware that since 2.5.32, the active/inactive lists are
per-zone.  So you only ever have one type of page on each list.
Probably, this will simplify things.
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-30 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-30 21:54 Scott Kaplan
2002-08-30 21:59 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-08-30 22:05 ` William Lee Irwin III

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