Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266174AbUFYCtT (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:49:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266175AbUFYCtT (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:49:19 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:53468 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266174AbUFYCtH (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:49:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:47:50 -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: <20040624194750.167a452d.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <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> <20040625023936.GG30687@dualathlon.random> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-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: 731 Lines: 18 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > 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. Good point, that. - 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/