Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030477AbWBHPpo (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:45:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030513AbWBHPpo (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:45:44 -0500 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:50832 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030477AbWBHPpn (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:45:43 -0500 From: Andi Kleen To: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [discuss] mmap, mbind and write to mmap'ed memory crashes 2.6.16-rc1[2] on 2 node X86_64 Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:45:24 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Bharata B Rao , Ray Bryant , discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060205163618.GB21972@in.ibm.com> <20060208121000.GA9906@in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602081645.24733.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 772 Lines: 19 On Wednesday 08 February 2006 16:42, Christoph Lameter wrote: > However, this has implications for policy_zone. This variable should store > the zone that policies apply to. However, in your case this zone will vary > which may lead to all sorts of weird behavior even if we fix > bind_zonelist. To which zone does policy apply? ZONE_NORMAL or ZONE_DMA32? It really needs to apply to both (currently you can't police 4GB of your memory on x86-64) But I haven't worked out a good design how to implement it yet. -Andi > - 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/