Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264002AbUFXWo1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:44:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265806AbUFXWoD (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:44:03 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:44948 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265760AbUFXWdp (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:33:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:36:12 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: wli@holomorphy.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, tiwai@suse.de, ak@suse.de, ak@muc.de, tripperda@nvidia.com, discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: 32-bit dma allocations on 64-bit platforms Message-Id: <20040624153612.038ebd39.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040624222150.GZ30687@dualathlon.random> References: <20040624112900.GE16727@wotan.suse.de> <20040624164258.1a1beea3.ak@suse.de> <20040624152946.GK30687@dualathlon.random> <40DAF7DF.9020501@yahoo.com.au> <20040624165200.GM30687@dualathlon.random> <20040624165629.GG21066@holomorphy.com> <20040624145441.181425c8.akpm@osdl.org> <20040624222150.GZ30687@dualathlon.random> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 609 Lines: 14 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:54:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > First thing to do is to identify some workload which needs the patch. > > that's quite trivial, boot a 2G box, malloc(1G), bzero(1GB), swapoff -a, > then the machine will lockup. Are those numbers correct? We won't touch swap at all with that test? - 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/