On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Mel Gorman wrote: > > Before the change we walk all zones of the zonelist. > > > > Yeah, but the zonelist is for GFP_KERNEL so it should not include the HIGHMEM > zones, right? The key change is that after the patch there are fewer zonelists > than get filtered.
But the HIGHMEM zones etc were included before. There was no check for HIGHMEM etc there. The gfpmask was ignored. > I think the effect of that patch is that zones get shrunk that have > nothing to do with the requestors requirements. Right? Right. AFAICT That was the behavior before the change. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
