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Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing

To: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com (Kanoj Sarcar)
Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:42:49 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli), riel@nl.linux.org (Rik van Riel), torvalds@transmeta.com, mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <200001132102.NAA20091@google.engr.sgi.com> from "Kanoj Sarcar" at Jan 13, 2000 01:02:19 PM
Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org

> doc. If you have a large number of free regular pages, and the dma
> zone is completely exhausted, the 2.2 decision of balacing the dma
> zone might never fetch an "yes" answer, because it is based on total
> number of free pages, not also the per zone free pages. Right? Things 
> will get worse the more non-dma pages there are.

We might not make good choices to free ISA DMA pages, you are correct yes

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