On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, David Rientjes wrote: > I think we may want to just convert slub (and the memory controller) to > use N_HIGH_MEMORY rather than N_NORMAL_MEMORY since nothing else uses it > and the generic code seems to handle N_HIGH_MEMORY for all configs > appropriately. In 32 bit configurations some architectures (like x86) provide nodes that have only high memory. Slab allocators only handle normal memory. SLAB operates in a kind of degraded mode in that case by falling back for each allocation to the nodes that have normal memory. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
