Re: [discuss] Re: 32-bit dma allocations on 64-bit platforms

[Andrew Morton]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:54:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > First thing to do is to identify some workload which needs the patch. 
> 
> that's quite trivial, boot a 2G box, malloc(1G), bzero(1GB), swapoff -a,
> then the machine will lockup.

Are those numbers correct?  We won't touch swap at all with that test?
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