Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261506AbTIRPEu (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:04:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261473AbTIRPEt (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:04:49 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:13016 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261506AbTIRPEs (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:04:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:05:18 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Jens Axboe Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Alan Cox , Olivier Galibert , Stephan von Krawczynski , neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: experiences beyond 4 GB RAM with 2.4.22 Message-ID: <20030918150518.GZ4306@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Jens Axboe , Marcelo Tosatti , Alan Cox , Olivier Galibert , Stephan von Krawczynski , neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au, Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030917191946.GQ906@suse.de> <20030918070845.GS906@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030918070845.GS906@suse.de> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 898 Lines: 24 On Wed, Sep 17 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: >> IMO such GFP_DMA32 flag is a bit intrusive for 2.4, isnt it? On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:08:45AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > Not really, it's just an extra zone. Maybe I can dig such a patch up, I > had one for 2.4.2-pre something... On Wed, Sep 17 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: >> What has been done in 2.6 in respect to the excessive normal zone >> pressure and bounce buffering problems? On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:08:45AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > Nothing, afaic. 2.6 isn't even completely deadlock free when it comes to > bounce buffering. It'd be great to have ZONE_DMA32 around for 2.6. -- wli - 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/