Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750790AbVJQQm4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:42:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750806AbVJQQm4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:42:56 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:14557 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750790AbVJQQmz (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:42:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:42:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andi Kleen cc: Andrew Morton , Ravikiran G Thirumalai , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, tglx@linutronix.de, shai@scalex86.org Subject: Re: x86_64: 2.6.14-rc4 swiotlb broken In-Reply-To: <200510171826.40711.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20051017093654.GA7652@localhost.localdomain> <200510171740.57614.ak@suse.de> <200510171826.40711.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 976 Lines: 26 On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > That's completely new terminology. We always called all of ZONE_NORMAL low > memory. We call it "low" memory because it happens to have "low" addresses. In other words, it's not "terminology", it's "English". None of the allocators that allocate stuff in ZONE_NORMAL is called "low" normally. It's _normal_ memory. It's not ZONE_LOW. We don't say "kmalloc_low()". We say "kmalloc()". A function that is called "xyz_low()" means something else than normal to me. If it was normal memory, we'd call it just "xyz()". And if it did high memory, we'd call it "xyz_highmem()" (or, preferably, we'd just have a generic function that accepted GFP_HIGHMEM as a parameter). Linus - 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/