Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: add ZONE_NORMAL zone for 64 bit kernel

From: Tabi Timur-B04825 <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:04:04 +0000

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=20
ZONE_NORMAL.  We only create a ZONE_DMA.  Why is that?  Shouldn't it be=20
the other way around?

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale=