From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 18:40:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [patch] balanced highmem subsystem under pre7-9 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Linus Torvalds , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: On Fri, 12 May 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > But we *can* split the HIGHMEM zone into a bunch of smaller > ones without affecting performance. Just set zone->pages_min > and zone->pages_low to 0 and zone->pages_high to some smallish > value. Then we can teach the allocator to skip the zone if: > 1) no obscenely large amount of free pages > 2) zone is locked by somebody else (TryLock(zone->lock)) whats the point of this splitup? (i suspect there is a point, i just cannot see it now. thanks.) Ingo -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/