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From: hayfeng Lee <teklife.kernel@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@zh-kernel.org,
	kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: why choose 896MB to the start point of ZONE_HIGHMEM
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 22:37:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <l2y5f6c52c61004060737me670f6e2t6071444c4fd1318b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

hello,every one.
I have a question:
Why does linux choose 896MB to do a start point of ZONE_HIGHMEM and
the end point of ZONE_NORMAL. Just for experience?
What is the advantages?

             reply	other threads:[~2010-04-06 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-06 14:37 hayfeng Lee [this message]
2010-04-06 15:02 ` why choose 896MB to the start point of ZONE_HIGHMEM Joel Fernandes
2010-04-06 18:17   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-06 19:20     ` Frank Hu
2010-04-06 19:44       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-06 20:01         ` Joel Fernandes
2010-04-06 20:04           ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]           ` <q2iacff6c2b1004061528t28f1337eq977aabf8fe71bc22@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <3715922601579231267@unknownmsgid>
2010-04-06 23:32               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-07  1:47                 ` Xianghua Xiao
     [not found]                   ` <n2uacff6c2b1004061904v5d290fa6v909e2e5fe32ff910@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-07  2:09                     ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]                       ` <n2jacff6c2b1004062248w311d8482w6c64a7bdfded8385@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-07 12:10                         ` Xianghua Xiao
     [not found]                           ` <k2z7f245da81004070550u5324f6ffyba3e996a3e292a0a@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                             ` <n2kb114f3281004070948hb510b9b1o80126e2411a98c8d@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-07 17:14                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-08  2:23                                 ` Nobin Mathew
     [not found]             ` <u2o7f245da81004062105w1f7d3416n7855472d28e8bcfd@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-07  5:28               ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]                 ` <h2pacff6c2b1004062257mc8552d81u33322c43e47502c9@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-07  6:04                   ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]             ` <q2oc58e39921004062208z6410b031o8d5654a582cc2783@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]               ` <t2yacff6c2b1004062309t89b6bddfy3b0cf5970846fbb0@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-07 14:11                 ` tek-life
2010-04-06 20:15         ` Frank Hu
2010-04-06 20:18           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-07 12:16           ` Krzysztof Halasa

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