| Date | Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:47:50 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [discuss] Re: 32-bit dma allocations on 64-bit platforms |
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:09:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > this sort of thing, simply because nobody seems to be hitting the problems. > > nobody is hitting the problems because if this problem triggers the > machine starts slowly swapping and shrinking the vfs and it eventually > relocate the highmem. the crpilling down of the vfs caches as well isn't > a good thing and it will not be noticeable by anybody.
Good point, that.
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