Basic HighMeM Question

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 06:16:05 EDT 2011


Is it okay to jump in, guys?

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:51, piyush moghe <pmkernel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Prabhu.
> So does this means that this ZONE_NORMAL limit of 896MB is because of 3:1
> memory division?

partly yes, plus 896 MB itself is due to some reservation in kernel
address space such as vmalloc, fixmap etc.

> If it is do then does this mean that if this ratio is changed then
> ZONE_NORMAL limit will also be changed?

see above...
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Mulyadi Santosa
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