From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 14:15:22 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel 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: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Linus Torvalds , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: On Fri, 12 May 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > 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.) There's not much point in doing so. This is basically just a reply to Andrea's "but you can't do _this_ with the current approach" remark ;) Rik -- The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network of people. That is its real strength. Wanna talk about the kernel? irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ -- 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/