Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:21:05 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 |
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Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 09:50 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc2/2.6.10-rc2-mm4/ > > > > - Various fixes and cleanups > > > > - A decent-sized x86_64 update. > > > > - x86_64 supports a fourth VM zone: ZONE_DMA32. This may affect memory > > reclaim, but shouldn't. > > > what is the purpose of such a zone ??
For pages which have a physical address <4G. I assume this was motivated by the lack of an IOMMU on ia32e? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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