On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 18:29 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > As I said following mail, I said about free space problem. > Of course, compaction could move anon pages into somewhere. > What's is somewhere? At last, it's same zone. > It can prevent fragment problem but not size of free space. > So I mean it would be better to move it into another zone(ex, HIGHMEM) > rather than OOM kill. Real machines don't have highmem, highmem sucks!! /me runs Does cross zone movement really matter, I though these crappy devices were mostly used on crappy hardware with very limited memory, so pretty much everything would be in zone_normal.. no? But sure, if there's really a need we can look at maybe doing cross zone movement. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
