Re: [patch] 4GB I/O, cut three

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 13:42:51 EST


On Wed, 30 May 2001 andrea@e-mind.com wrote:

> btw, I think such heuristic is horribly broken ;), the highmem zone
> simply needs to be balanced if it is under the pages_low mark, just
> skipping it and falling back into the normal zone that happens to be
> above the low mark is the wrong thing to do.

2.3.51 did this, we all know the result.

Rik

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