Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:18:28 +0000 (GMT)

> I think that busier machines probably have a larger need
> for DMA memory than this code fragment will give us. I
> have the gut feeling that we'll want to keep about 512kB
> or more free in the lower 16MB of busy machines...

2.2.x uses a simple algorithm. Normally allocations come from the main pool
if it fails we use the DMA pool. That seems to work just fine.

Alan

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