From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:58:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:58:17 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:29472 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:58:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 20:57:08 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Rik van Riel Cc: Mark Hemment , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [patch] 4GB I/O, cut three Message-ID: <20010530205708.E25242@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010530162607.D1408@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:42:51PM -0300 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:42:51PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2001 andrea@e-mind.com wrote: > > > btw, I think such heuristic is horribly broken ;), the highmem zone > > simply needs to be balanced if it is under the pages_low mark, just > > skipping it and falling back into the normal zone that happens to be > > above the low mark is the wrong thing to do. > > 2.3.51 did this, we all know the result. I've no idea about what 2.3.51 does, but I was obviously wrong about that. Forget such what I said above. Andrea