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From: ebiederm+eric@ccr.net (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Rohland <hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com>,
	"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	fxzhang@chpc.ict.ac.cn, "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Why don't we make mmap MAP_SHARED with /dev/zero possible?
Date: 03 Nov 1999 13:16:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1bt9bv10u.fsf@flinx.hidden> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911031736450.7408-100000@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>

[snip]

Q: Highmem allocation for the page cache.

Note:  page_cache_alloc currently doesn't take any parameters.
It should take __GFP_BIGMEM or whatever so we can yes high memory is ok.
Or no.  
I'm going to put metadata in this page and high memory is not o.k, too inconvienint.

Eric
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-11-03 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <qwwzox6l3nh.fsf@sap.com>
1999-11-03 14:29 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-11-03 14:50   ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-11-03 16:46     ` Ingo Molnar
1999-11-03 18:55       ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-11-03 19:16       ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
1999-11-03 20:24         ` Ingo Molnar
1999-11-03 19:32           ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-11-03 21:41             ` Ingo Molnar
1999-10-26  1:57 fxzhang
1999-10-26  7:35 ` Christoph Rohland
1999-10-26 12:05   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-26 12:07 ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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