Re: [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed

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On 8 May 2000, Zlatko Calusic wrote:

> BTW, this patch mostly *removes* cruft recently added, and
> returns to the known state of operation.

Which doesn't work.

Think of a 1GB machine which has a 16MB DMA zone,
a 950MB normal zone and a very small HIGHMEM zone.

With the old VM code the HIGHMEM zone would be
swapping like mad while the other two zones are
idle.

It's Not That Kind Of Party(tm)

cheers,

Rik

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