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From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: Ronghua Zhang <rz5b@cs.virginia.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does ZONE_HIGHMEM exist on machines with 1G memeory
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:13:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095826387.2454.101.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.51.0409212305520.8395@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU>

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 23:09 -0400, Ronghua Zhang wrote:

>   This may be a dumb question. But it seems to me that when the machine
> has 1GB memory, it can be mapped to the 1GB kernel virtual address space.
> Do we still need ZONE_HIGHMEM in this case? Please CC any follow-up to me.
> Thanks

Highmem is actually everything above 896MB ... so, yes, you need
ZONE_HIGHMEM.

	Robert Love



  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-22  4:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-22  3:09 Does ZONE_HIGHMEM exist on machines with 1G memeory Ronghua Zhang
2004-09-22  4:13 ` Robert Love [this message]
2004-09-22  4:39   ` Ronghua Zhang
2004-09-22  4:55     ` Robert Love
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-22  4:23 Aaron Gyes

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