From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id z25so16207ele.8 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:45:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:45:17 +0100 From: "Bart Van Assche" Subject: Re: [Bug 9941] New: Zone "Normal" missing in /proc/zoneinfo In-Reply-To: <20080213115225.GB4007@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080212100623.4fd6cf85.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080212234522.24bed8c1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080213115225.GB4007@csn.ul.ie> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrew Morton , bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Feb 13, 2008 12:52 PM, wrote: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9941 > > On x86_64 (which is what it is according to the config), machines with less > than 4GB of RAM will have no ZONE_NORMAL. This machine appears to have 2GB. I > don't see the problem as such because it's like PPC64 only having ZONE_DMA > (ZONE_NORMAL exists but it is always empty). > > > Mel, is this, uh, normal? > > > > On x86_64, it is. Both tests were performed with the kernel compiled for x86_64 and were run on the same system. I was surprised to see a difference in the zoneinfo between 2.6.24 and 2.6.24.2 kernels. But if I understand you correctly then the 2.6.24.2 behavior is the only correct behavior ? Bart Van Assche. -- 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