Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266151AbUFYBRu (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:17:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266153AbUFYBRu (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:17:50 -0400 Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.57]:56229 "HELO smtp013.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266151AbUFYBRt (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:17:49 -0400 Message-ID: <40DB7D25.1090207@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:17:25 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040401 Debian/1.6-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrea Arcangeli CC: Andrew Morton , wli@holomorphy.com, 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 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> <20040624151130.4a444973.akpm@osdl.org> <20040624230919.GB30687@dualathlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20040624230919.GB30687@dualathlon.random> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 709 Lines: 15 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Your code must be inferior since it doesn't even allow to tune each zone > differently (you seems not to have a lower_zone_reserve_ratio[idx]). Not sure > why you dont' simply forward port the code from 2.4 instead of reinventing it. > It can easily be modified if required though. Is there a need to be tuning these different things? This is probably where we should hold back on the complexity until it is shown to improve something. - 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/