From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: ck@vds.kolivas.org
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
linux list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: lowmem_reserve question
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:50:18 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604031450.19177.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604031448.01391.kernel@kolivas.org>
On Monday 03 April 2006 14:48, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Monday 03 April 2006 14:42, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 12:48 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > Furthermore, now that we have the option of up to 3GB lowmem split on
> > > 32bit we can have a default lowmem_reserve of almost 12MB (if I'm
> > > reading it right) which seems very tight with only 16MB of ZONE_DMA.
> >
> > I haven't crawled around in the vm for ages, but I think that's only
> > 16MB if you support antique cards.
>
> That's what the ram is used for, but that is all the ZONE_DMA 32bit
> machines get
32bit i386 architecture I mean.
> , whether you use it for that purpose or not. My concern is
> that this will have all sorts of effects on the balancing since it will
> always appear almost full.
Cheers,
Con
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-03 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-02 4:01 2.6.16-ck3 Con Kolivas
2006-04-02 4:46 ` 2.6.16-ck3 Nick Piggin
2006-04-02 8:51 ` 2.6.16-ck3 Con Kolivas
2006-04-02 9:37 ` 2.6.16-ck3 Nick Piggin
2006-04-02 9:39 ` [ck] 2.6.16-ck3 Con Kolivas
2006-04-02 9:51 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-03 2:48 ` lowmem_reserve question Con Kolivas
2006-04-03 4:42 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-04-03 4:48 ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-03 4:50 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2006-04-03 5:14 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-04-03 5:18 ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-03 5:31 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-04-04 2:35 ` [ck] " Con Kolivas
2006-04-06 1:10 ` [PATCH] mm: limit lowmem_reserve Con Kolivas
2006-04-06 1:29 ` Respin: " Con Kolivas
2006-04-06 2:43 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-06 2:55 ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-06 2:58 ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-06 3:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-06 4:36 ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-06 4:52 ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-07 6:25 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-07 9:02 ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-07 12:40 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-08 0:15 ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-08 0:55 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-08 1:01 ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-08 1:25 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-17 14:11 ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-18 7:11 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-18 7:21 ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-18 7:26 ` Nick Piggin
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