Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 May 2006 03:24:07 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: swapper: page allocation failure. |
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On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:31:12AM +0200, Haar J?nos wrote:
> 1. why don't use highmem for caching? > 2. why can not allocate enough lowmem from shared-buffer for the e1000 > driver if it needs some memory?
highmem can't be used as freely as lowmem, it has additional complexity and a slight over head that makes it hard or impossible to use in many places - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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