Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266169AbUFYCji (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:39:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266167AbUFYCji (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:39:38 -0400 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:58528 "EHLO dualathlon.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266169AbUFYCjc (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:39:32 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 04:39:36 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Andrew Morton Cc: William Lee Irwin III , 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: <20040625023936.GG30687@dualathlon.random> References: <20040624152946.GK30687@dualathlon.random> <40DAF7DF.9020501@yahoo.com.au> <20040624165200.GM30687@dualathlon.random> <20040624165629.GG21066@holomorphy.com> <20040624145441.181425c8.akpm@osdl.org> <20040624220823.GO21066@holomorphy.com> <20040624224529.GA30687@dualathlon.random> <20040624225121.GS21066@holomorphy.com> <20040624160945.69185c46.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040624160945.69185c46.akpm@osdl.org> X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 770 Lines: 15 On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:09:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > this sort of thing, simply because nobody seems to be hitting the problems. nobody is hitting the problems because if this problem triggers the machine starts slowly swapping and shrinking the vfs and it eventually relocate the highmem. the crpilling down of the vfs caches as well isn't a good thing and it will not be noticeable by anybody. If they would be truly running without swap they would be hitting these problems very fast. But everybody has swap. - 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/