Re: [patch] balanced highmem subsystem under pre7-9

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 11:08:54 EST

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On Fri, 19 May 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

>I'm curious what would be so "very broken" about this?

You start eating from ZONE_DMA before you made empty ZONE_NORMAL.

>AFAICS it does most of what the classzone patch would achieve,
>at lower complexity and better readability.

I disagree.

Andrea

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