Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 08:43:42 EST


On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:

>It would seem logical that when a page in the DMA zone is only held for
>swap cache, it's worth copying it to the regular zone and using the copy
>when the page is needed again to free up DMA pages without hitting the
>disk.

That's basically what I am just doing for preserving regular pages w.r.t.
high pages in replace_with_highmem but currently I am not graceful against
DMA pages yet.

Andrea

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