From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA04026 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:30:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 18:15:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: de-luxe zone allocator, design 2 In-Reply-To: <199807271112.MAA00732@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Linux MM List-ID: On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 23:03:18 +0200 (CEST), Rik van Riel > said: > > > With the reports of Linux booting in 3 MB it's probably > > time for some low-mem adjustments, but in general this > > scheme should be somewhat better designed overall. > > In 3MB, zoning in 128k chunks is crazy --- you want 8k chunks, max! Agreed, although 16k chunks would probably be better for 3 and 4 MB machines (allows DMA and network buffers). Rik. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org