> > I've got a P90 laptop with 40M *1. Somewhere between 2.3.24 and
> > 2.3.27-final the kernel started keeping 15M or more free all the time.
> > On a 40M laptop that makes a big difference. *smile*
>
> 2.3.27 seperates DMA memory from the rest but forgets that you need to
> pull from the DMA pool for a failing GFP_KERNEL allocation.
Aha! Alan, you're great; I barely have time to reboot to try an
older kernel before you come up with the source of the problem!
My ignorance here is showing; would this stop the kernel from
allocating DMA'able memory for any purpose whatsoever?
Thanks again. Cheers,
- Bill
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