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 14:58:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:58:07 -0400 Received: from r109m208.cybercable.tm.fr ([195.132.109.208]:1296 "HELO alph.dyndns.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:57:53 -0400 To: Rik van Riel Cc: andrea@e-mind.com, Mark Hemment , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [patch] 4GB I/O, cut three In-Reply-To: From: Yoann Vandoorselaere Date: 30 May 2001 20:57:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <87r8x6k6kx.fsf@mandrakesoft.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rik van Riel writes: > 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. Just a note, I remember the 2.3.51 kernel as the most usable kernel I ever used talking about VM. -- Yoann Vandoorselaere | C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes MandrakeSoft | it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole | leg. - Bjarne Stroustrup