From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:50:21 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: [patch] Add support for more than 256 zones Message-ID: <955130000.1060811421@flay> In-Reply-To: <20030813135538.19c96c67.akpm@osdl.org> References: <3F3A9E46.6010803@sgi.com> <20030813135538.19c96c67.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton , Jay Lan Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > Yes, this is good - it gives us five more page flags on 32-bit machines. > Assuming that no 32 bit machiens will ever need more than three zones(?) There has been talk already of a ZONE_DMA32 or whatever (first 4GB). That'd be useful for quite a few things, so might be nice to leave space for at least four zones ... M. -- 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/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org