Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:18:28 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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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