Messages in this thread | | | From | (Kanoj Sarcar) | Subject | Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:50:53 -0800 (PST) |
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> > > doc. If you have a large number of free regular pages, and the dma > > zone is completely exhausted, the 2.2 decision of balacing the dma > > zone might never fetch an "yes" answer, because it is based on total > > number of free pages, not also the per zone free pages. Right? Things > > will get worse the more non-dma pages there are. > > We might not make good choices to free ISA DMA pages, you are correct yes
And given a huge enough HIGHMEM zone, we might not make good choices to free regular memory too, right?
My patch would fix this problem. I am going to make the patch bigger to fix kswapd too, then put it out in the next few hours.
Kanoj
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