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
next prev parent 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
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