Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre,

Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-02T19:25:21Z

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:07:51PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> However, I have no idea why your buffers and pagecache pages
> aren't bounced into the HIGHMEM zone ... They /should/ just

buffers/dcache/icache can't be allocated in HIGHMEM zone. Only page cache can
live in HIGHMEM by using bounce buffers for doing the I/O.

> be moved to the HIGHMEM zone where they don't bother the rest
> of the system, but for some reason it looks like that doesn't
> work right on your system ...

That shouldn't be the problem, the bounce buffer logic isn't changed since
test6 that is reported not to show the bad behaviour.

Andrea