linux-kernel - Re: ZONE

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Date:	Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:37:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...igh.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rohit Seth <rohitseth@...gle.com>, jesse.barnes@...el.com,
	anton@...ba.org
Subject: Re: ZONE_DMA

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Martin Bligh wrote:

> However, whatever you do, meeting (2) is rather hard - it's a damned
> sight simpler to stuff it all in ZONE_DMA because that's the end of
> the fallback list.

That used to be the case. If you switch ZONE_DMA off (like possible in mm) 
then ZONE_NORMAL is the end of the fallback. I think we basically want 
the same thing and get to the same result.


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