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

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Jul 04 2006 - 12:23:50 EST


On Tuesday 04 July 2006 18:16, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > The 900MB refered to the boundary between NORMAL and HIGHMEM on i386.
>
> Yikes. So any system with 1MB will need to have highmem?

No. But a 1GB system will.

> I guess the 2G/2G config option changes that?

Yes, but it also breaks a lot of software.

-Andi
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