Re: shrink_mmap() change in ac-21

Zlatko Calusic
2000-06-20T09:03:33Z

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:

> 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.
>

Exactly!
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Zlatko