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Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing
> 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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