Re: shrink_mmap() change in ac-21

From: Zlatko Calusic (zlatko@iskon.hr)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2000 - 04:03:33 EST

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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:

> On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> >if those wrong zones are quite full. If the DMA zone desparately needs
> >free pages and keeps needing them, isn't it good to encourage future
> >non-DMA allocations to use another zone? Removing pages from other
>
> After some time the DMA zone will be full again anyway and you payed a
> cost that consists in throwing away unrelated innocent pages. I'm not
> convinced it's the right thing to do.
>

Exactly!

-- Zlatko

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