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SubjectRe: 2.3.27 always keeping 15M free?
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> 	I've got a P90 laptop with 40M *1.  Somewhere between 2.3.24 and
> 2.3.27-final the kernel started keeping 15M or more free all the time.
> On a 40M laptop that makes a big difference. *smile*

2.3.27 seperates DMA memory from the rest but forgets that you need to
pull from the DMA pool for a failing GFP_KERNEL allocation.

You also need to figure very fast when you will need to do this otherwise
your performance goes through the floor.

Alan


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