From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm4
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:31:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041130183151.GA26967@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101837994.2640.67.camel@laptop.fenrus.org>
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 07:06:34PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 09:50 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc2/2.6.10-rc2-mm4/
> >
> > - Various fixes and cleanups
> >
> > - A decent-sized x86_64 update.
> >
> > - x86_64 supports a fourth VM zone: ZONE_DMA32. This may affect memory
> > reclaim, but shouldn't.
>
>
> what is the purpose of such a zone ??
The purpose is probably to work around 32bit DMA limited devices on the broken
iAMD64 systems.
But I think it's a bad idea, x86_64 doesn't use CONFIG_HIGHMEM at all currenly,
and it could easily use it for that purpose like in the patch in older RH
kernels for ia64.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-30 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-30 17:50 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Andrew Morton
2004-11-30 18:06 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-30 18:21 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Andrew Morton
2004-11-30 18:25 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-30 18:32 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Andrew Morton
2004-11-30 17:44 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Alan Cox
2004-11-30 19:46 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Andrew Morton
2004-11-30 19:36 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-30 18:48 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-02 8:03 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Jes Sorensen
2004-12-02 8:01 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Jes Sorensen
2004-11-30 18:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-11-30 18:38 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Alan Cox
2004-11-30 18:30 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-30 19:18 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Stephen Smalley
2004-11-30 19:29 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Chris Wright
2004-11-30 19:43 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-30 19:55 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Jeff Mahoney
2004-12-01 23:32 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Jeffrey Mahoney
2004-12-02 1:01 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Chris Wright
2004-12-02 1:11 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Jeff Mahoney
2004-12-02 13:32 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Stephen Smalley
2004-12-02 13:15 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Stephen Smalley
2004-12-07 19:57 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Jeff Mahoney
2004-12-07 20:28 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Stephen Smalley
2004-12-07 22:46 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Jeff Mahoney
2004-12-08 13:28 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Stephen Smalley
2004-11-30 23:07 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 - cifs.ko needs unknown symbol CIFSSMBSetPosixACL Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-11-30 23:53 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-01 1:37 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Matthew Dobson
2004-12-03 9:23 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Andi Kleen
2004-12-01 8:43 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 - cifs.ko needs unknown symbol CIFSSMBSetPosixACL Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-12-01 21:10 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Adrian Bunk
2004-12-01 22:26 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Bill Davidsen
2004-12-02 0:18 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Bjorn Helgaas
2004-12-01 22:26 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4: NUMA-related oops on dual-Opteron Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-12-02 1:01 ` [PATCH] make gconfig work with gtk-2.4 J.A. Magallon
2004-12-02 8:21 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-02 12:56 ` Roman Zippel
2004-12-02 13:22 ` J.A. Magallon
2004-12-03 9:06 ` [PATCH hostap] fix Kconfig typos and missing select CRYPTO (was: 2.6.10-rc2-mm4) Joshua Kwan
2004-12-03 9:50 ` oom goodness Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Chris Ross
2004-12-03 16:07 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-12-03 22:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-09 11:07 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 William Lee Irwin III
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-30 18:29 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Petr Vandrovec
2004-11-30 18:38 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Alan Cox
2004-12-03 21:59 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Terence Ripperda
2004-12-05 19:46 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Alan Cox
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2004-12-14 19:00 ` 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 Andi Kleen
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