From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 23:02:16 +0100 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: 2.6.26: x86/kernel/pci_dma.c: gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY ? Message-ID: <20080525230216.1fe1b216@core> In-Reply-To: <20080525212350.GB8405@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20080521113028.GA24632@xs4all.net> <48341A57.1030505@redhat.com> <20080522084736.GC31727@one.firstfloor.org> <1211484343.30678.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1211657898.25661.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080525163539.GA8405@one.firstfloor.org> <20080525205532.3ed5e478@core> <20080525212350.GB8405@one.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Miquel van Smoorenburg , Glauber Costa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, andi-suse@firstfloor.org List-ID: > No it doesn't because the lower zone protection basically never puts > anything that is not GFP_DMA into the 16MB zone. > > Just check yourself on your machine using sysrq. > > That was one of the motivations behind the mask allocator design. Try a 16MB embedded PC Alan -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org