From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:18:28 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: from "Rik van Riel" at Jan 13, 2000 02:40:14 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Kanoj Sarcar , torvalds@transmeta.com, mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu, andrea@suse.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: > I think that busier machines probably have a larger need > for DMA memory than this code fragment will give us. I > have the gut feeling that we'll want to keep about 512kB > or more free in the lower 16MB of busy machines... 2.2.x uses a simple algorithm. Normally allocations come from the main pool if it fails we use the DMA pool. That seems to work just fine. Alan -- 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.nl.linux.org/Linux-MM/