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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/39] lmb: Add lmb_find_area()
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:46:37 -0700
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On 04/12/2010 10:26 PM, Yinghai wrote:
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> current generic lmb_find_area() is allocating from high to low.
> x86 32bit seems have problem with that.

Presumably because it fills up ZONE_DMA.

	-hpa
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