Re: [patch] 4GB I/O, cut three

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:42:51PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2001 [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> > btw, I think such heuristic is horribly broken ;), the highmem zone
> > simply needs to be balanced if it is under the pages_low mark, just
> > skipping it and falling back into the normal zone that happens to be
> > above the low mark is the wrong thing to do.
> 
> 2.3.51 did this, we all know the result.

I've no idea about what 2.3.51 does, but I was obviously wrong about
that. Forget such what I said above.

Andrea