Re: [RFC 0/8] Reduce MAX_NR_ZONES and remove useless zones.

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:55:34PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> I keep seeing zones on various platforms that are never used and wonder
> why we compile support for them into the kernel.
> 
> IA64 on SGI for example only uses ZONE_DMA other IA64 platforms can
> also use ZONE_NORMAL.

Which btw is utterly wrong.  It should have a 4GB ZONE_DMA32 and everything
else in ZONE_NORMAL.

That doesn't mean I want to discourage this patchset, quite contrary.
But please fix this oddity aswell.

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