Re: shrink_mmap() change in ac-21

Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-19T22:48:14Z

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:

>if those wrong zones are quite full. If the DMA zone desparately needs
>free pages and keeps needing them, isn't it good to encourage future
>non-DMA allocations to use another zone? Removing pages from other

After some time the DMA zone will be full again anyway and you payed a
cost that consists in throwing away unrelated innocent pages. I'm not
convinced it's the right thing to do.

Andrea