Re: [PATCH 1/6] Deal with cases of ZONE_DMA meaning the first zone

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On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 03:27:34PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Optional DMA zone: Replace uses of ZONE_DMA as the first zone
> 
> In two places in the VM we use ZONE_DMA to refer to the first zone.
> If ZONE_DMA is optional then other zones may be first. So simply
> replace ZONE_DMA with zone 0.
> 
> This also fixes ZONETABLE_PGSHIFT. If we have only a single zone then
> ZONES_PGSHIFT may become 0 because there is no need anymore to encode the
> zone number related to a pgdat. However, we still need a zonetable to index
> all the zones for each node if this is a NUMA system. Therefore define
> ZONETABLE_SHIFT unconditionally as the offset of the ZONE field in page flags.

ACK.  This is a nice cleanup that should go in independent of what the fate
of the rest of the series is.

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