linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] add per-zone statistics to show_free

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Message-Id: <20090705200757.0911.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Sun,  5 Jul 2009 20:09:55 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] add per-zone statistics to show_free_areas()

> On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 05:23:35PM +0800, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > Subject: [PATCH] add per-zone statistics to show_free_areas()
> > 
> > Currently, show_free_area() mainly display system memory usage. but it
> > doesn't display per-zone memory usage information.
> > 
> > However, if DMA zone OOM occur, Administrator definitely need to know
> > per-zone memory usage information.
> 
> DMA zone is normally lowmem-reserved. But I think the numbers still
> make sense for DMA32.
> 
> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>

Yes, x86_64 have DMA and DMA32, but almost 64-bit architecture have
2 or 4GB "DMA" zone.
Then, I wrote the patch description by generic name.

Thanks.


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