Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 16:53:44 EST

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> > We might not make good choices to free ISA DMA pages, you are correct yes
>
> And given a huge enough HIGHMEM zone, we might not make good choices to free
> regular memory too, right?

I've got no empirical evidence from 2.2.x that the theoretical case occurs.

Alan

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