Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:42:32 -0500 (EST) | From | William Stearns <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.27 always keeping 15M free? |
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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.
Aha! Alan, you're great; I barely have time to reboot to try an older kernel before you come up with the source of the problem! My ignorance here is showing; would this stop the kernel from allocating DMA'able memory for any purpose whatsoever? Thanks again. Cheers, - Bill
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