[PATCH] powerpc/mm: add ZONE_NORMAL zone for 64 bit kernel
Tabi Timur-B04825
B04825 at freescale.com
Tue Jul 24 14:04:04 EST 2012
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Sure but I don't want to create the zones in the first place (and thus
> introduce the added pressure on the memory management) on machines that
> don't need it.
One thing that does confuse me -- by default, we don't create a
ZONE_NORMAL. We only create a ZONE_DMA. Why is that? Shouldn't it be
the other way around?
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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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