From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:48:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: shrink_mmap() change in ac-21 In-Reply-To: <20000619234627.B23135@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Zlatko Calusic , alan@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote: >if those wrong zones are quite full. If the DMA zone desparately needs >free pages and keeps needing them, isn't it good to encourage future >non-DMA allocations to use another zone? Removing pages from other After some time the DMA zone will be full again anyway and you payed a cost that consists in throwing away unrelated innocent pages. I'm not convinced it's the right thing to do. Andrea -- 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/