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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: limit lowmem_reserve
Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Saturday 08 April 2006 10:55, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>Con Kolivas wrote:
>>
>>>On Friday 07 April 2006 22:40, Nick Piggin wrote:
>>>
>>>>How would zone_watermark_ok always fail though?
>>>
>>>Withdrew this patch a while back; ignore
>>
>>Well, whether or not that particular patch isa good idea, it
>>is definitely a bug if zone_watermark_ok could ever always
>>fail due to lowmem reserve and we should fix it.
>
>
> Ok. I think I presented enough information for why I thought zone_watermark_ok
> would fail (for ZONE_DMA). With 16MB ZONE_DMA and a vmsplit of 3GB we have a
> lowmem_reserve of 12MB. It's pretty hard to keep that much ZONE_DMA free, I
> don't think I've ever seen that much free on my ZONE_DMA on an ordinary
> desktop without any particular ZONE_DMA users. Changing the tunable can make
> the lowmem_reserve larger than ZONE_DMA is on any vmsplit too as far as I
> understand the ratio.
>

Umm, for ZONE_DMA allocations, ZONE_DMA isn't a lower zone. So that
12MB protection should never come into it (unless it is buggy?).

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