From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:42:49 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <200001132102.NAA20091@google.engr.sgi.com> from "Kanoj Sarcar" at Jan 13, 2000 01:02:19 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: Kanoj Sarcar Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , torvalds@transmeta.com, mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: > doc. If you have a large number of free regular pages, and the dma > zone is completely exhausted, the 2.2 decision of balacing the dma > zone might never fetch an "yes" answer, because it is based on total > number of free pages, not also the per zone free pages. Right? Things > will get worse the more non-dma pages there are. We might not make good choices to free ISA DMA pages, you are correct yes -- 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/