From: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko@iskon.hr>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>,
alan@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: shrink_mmap() change in ac-21
Date: 20 Jun 2000 11:03:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dnln0067x6.fsf@magla.iskon.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Andrea Arcangeli's message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:48:14 +0200 (CEST)"
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:
> 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.
>
Exactly!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-20 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-19 20:14 Zlatko Calusic
2000-06-19 21:07 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-19 21:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-06-19 22:10 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-19 22:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-19 22:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-20 9:03 ` Zlatko Calusic [this message]
2000-06-20 16:18 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-20 16:53 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-06-20 17:30 ` Manfred Spraul, Juan J. Quintela
2000-06-20 17:41 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-06-20 19:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-19 21:47 ` Manfred Spraul, Zlatko Calusic
2000-06-20 8:21 ` Zlatko Calusic
2000-06-20 16:14 ` Manfred Spraul, Zlatko Calusic
2000-06-20 17:01 ` willy
2000-06-20 17:03 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <200006202027.NAA01142@penguin.transmeta.com>
2000-06-20 22:59 ` Rik van Riel
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