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Re: [patch] zoned-2.3.28-G5, zone-allocator, highmem, bootmem fixes
- To: mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu (Ingo Molnar)
- Subject: Re: [patch] zoned-2.3.28-G5, zone-allocator, highmem, bootmem fixes
- From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:17:16 +0000 (GMT)
- Cc: cw@f00f.org, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, sct@redhat.com, hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911141139400.1618-100000@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> from "Ingo Molnar" at Nov 14, 99 11:43:25 am
- Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org
Ingo Molnar writes:
> no. The zone stuff is completely transparent, all GFP_* flags (should)
> work just as before. All interfaces were preserved. So shortly before 2.4
> it is not acceptable to break established APIs. (neither is it necessery)
Except discontiguous memory systems, which I've now got a real bad headache
for and am currently resorting to a fixed zone-size until the new stuff can
be fixed. Dunno if this is going to work yet, since the free watermarks
are going to be just wrong.
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