Re: 2.3.27 always keeping 15M free?

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:02:07 +0100 (CET)


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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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.

what it does forget is to balance memory in lower-order zones. Does the
attached patch fix the bad behavior?

-- mingo

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