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From: "Haar János" <djani22@netcenter.hu>
To: "Chris Wedgwood" <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: swapper: page allocation failure.
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 12:42:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01af01c67cc3$a399cb30$1800a8c0@dcccs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060521102407.GA5582@taniwha.stupidest.org


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Wedgwood" <cw@f00f.org>
To: "Haar J?nos" <djani22@netcenter.hu>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: swapper: page allocation failure.


> On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:31:12AM +0200, Haar J?nos wrote:
>
> > 1. why don't use highmem for caching?
> > 2. why can not allocate enough lowmem from shared-buffer for the e1000
> > driver if it needs some memory?
>
> highmem can't be used as freely as lowmem, it has additional
> complexity and a slight over head that makes it hard or impossible to
> use in many places

OK, i understand this, but buffer-cache is an optional thing, and looks like
really simple (for me), and i cannot understand why cannot use exactly for
buffering the highmem...

On my concentrator the nbd-client uses ~ 3.5GB of ram for PAGE-cache.
The buffer cache why can not use the highmem?
Whats the difference?

Cheers,
Janos


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-21 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-21  8:10 swapper: page allocation failure Haar János
2006-05-21  8:16 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-05-21  8:37   ` Haar János
2006-05-21  8:47     ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-05-21  9:03       ` Haar János
2006-05-21  9:10         ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-05-21  9:31           ` Haar János
2006-05-21 10:24             ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-05-21 10:42               ` Haar János [this message]
2006-05-21 10:26             ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-05-21 10:45               ` Haar János
2006-05-21 12:01               ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-21 13:58                 ` Haar János
2006-05-22  0:09                   ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-22  7:41                     ` Haar János
2006-05-22 11:17                       ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-22 15:08                         ` Haar János
2006-05-22 15:12                           ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-22 21:06                             ` swapper: page allocation failure. - random reboot problem Haar János
2006-05-23  9:17                               ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-23 10:16                                 ` Haar János
2006-05-23 10:24                                   ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-23 10:31                                     ` Haar János
2006-05-23 10:45                                       ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-23 11:01                                         ` Haar János
2006-05-21  9:23       ` swapper: page allocation failure Haar János
2006-05-21 12:03 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-21 14:01   ` Haar János

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