From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3D6FEAAF.E30967AD@zip.com.au> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:59:11 -0700 From: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Avoiding the highmem mess References: <0334AD85-BC63-11D6-B00B-000393829FA4@cs.amherst.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Scott Kaplan Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Scott Kaplan wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > ... > 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. -- 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/