public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/8] Reduce MAX_NR_ZONES and remove useless zones.
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 17:23:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607041723.46604.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607040806580.13456@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>


> I guess then we should drop ZONE_DMA (its a misnoner anyways since it 
> seems to indicate that DMA is only possible in this zone). Instead use
> 
> ZONE_ISA_DMA		-> ISA DMA Area (16 MB boundary)
> ZONE_32BIT_DMA		-> 32bit DMA area (well 900 MB on x86_64 but somewhere in that area)

It's 4GB on x86-64.

The 900MB refered to the boundary between NORMAL and HIGHMEM on i386.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-04 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-03 21:55 [RFC 0/8] Reduce MAX_NR_ZONES and remove useless zones Christoph Lameter
2006-07-03 21:55 ` [RFC 1/8] Rework mmzone.h: Make DMA32 and HIGHMEM optional Christoph Lameter
2006-07-03 22:28   ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-03 21:55 ` [RFC 2/8] Make display of highmem counters conditional on CONFIG_HIGHMEM Christoph Lameter
2006-07-03 21:55 ` [RFC 3/8] Move HIGHMEM counter into highmem.c/.h Christoph Lameter
2006-07-04  5:47   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-04  5:56     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-04  6:20       ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-04 15:20         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-04 16:50           ` Nick Piggin
2006-07-05  0:17             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-03 21:55 ` [RFC 4/8] Remove display of counters for not available zones Christoph Lameter
2006-07-03 21:56 ` [RFC 5/8] swap_prefetch: Make use of ZONE_HIGHMEM dependend on CONFIG_HIGHMEM Christoph Lameter
2006-07-03 21:56 ` [RFC 6/8] Fix MAX_NR_ZONES array initializations in various arches Christoph Lameter
2006-07-03 21:56 ` [RFC 7/8] Fix strange uses of MAX_NR_ZONES Christoph Lameter
2006-07-03 21:56 ` [RFC 8/8] Fix i386 SRAT check for MAX_NR_ZONES Christoph Lameter
2006-07-04  5:52   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-04  5:53     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-03 22:17 ` [RFC 0/8] Reduce MAX_NR_ZONES and remove useless zones Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-03 23:26   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-03 23:47     ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-03 23:53       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-04 12:04       ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-04 12:02     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-04 15:10       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-04 15:23         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-07-04 16:16           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-04 16:23             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-04 16:41               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-04 16:47                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-04 16:52                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-04 16:25             ` Andi Kleen

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=200607041723.46604.ak@suse.de \
    --to=ak@suse.de \
    --cc=akpm@osdl.org \
    --cc=clameter@sgi.com \
    --cc=hch@infradead.org \
    --cc=hugh@veritas.com \
    --cc=kernel@kolivas.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=marcelo@kvack.org \
    --cc=nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox