From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: shrink_mmap() change in ac-21 References: Reply-To: zlatko@iskon.hr From: Zlatko Calusic Date: 20 Jun 2000 11:03:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: Andrea Arcangeli's message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:48:14 +0200 (CEST)" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Jamie Lokier , alan@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: Andrea Arcangeli 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! -- Zlatko -- 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/