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Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:53:44 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <200001132150.NAA28314@google.engr.sgi.com> from "Kanoj Sarcar" at Jan 13, 2000 01:50:53 PM
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> > We might not make good choices to free ISA DMA pages, you are correct yes
> 
> And given a huge enough HIGHMEM zone, we might not make good choices to free
> regular memory too, right?

I've got no empirical evidence from 2.2.x that the theoretical case occurs.

Alan

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