Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:25:10 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:21 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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?
but there's the swiommu for those... so that can't be it realistically....
Is there code using the zone GFP mask yet ??
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