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SubjectRe: [patch v3] x86: allow ZONE_DMA to be configurable
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, David Rientjes wrote:

> ZONE_DMA is unnecessary for a large number of machines that do not
> require addressing in the lower 16MB of memory because they do not use
> devices with 16-bit address registers (plus one page byte register).
>
> This patch allows users to disable ZONE_DMA for x86 if they know they
> will not be using such devices with their kernel.
>
> This prevents the VM from unnecessarily reserving a ratio of memory
> (defaulting to 1/256th of system capacity) with lowmem_reserve_ratio
> for such allocations when it will never be used.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Peter, is this ready for merge?


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