On Monday 17 October 2005 18:02, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Monday 17 October 2005 17:27, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > > The patch is actually not quite correct - in theory node 0 could be
> > > > too small to contain the full swiotlb bounce buffers.
> > >
> > > Is node 0 guaranteed to be all low-memory? What if it allocates stuff
> > > at the end of memory on NODE(0)?
> >
> > This is 64bit ... only low memory.
>
> Ehh.. No there isn't.
>
> PCI DMA isn't magically 64-bit, even on your Opteron.
>
> So low memory in this case is anything < 32 bits. How many bits the CPU
> has is immaterial.
That's completely new terminology. We always called all of ZONE_NORMAL low
memory.
The 32bit DMA zone had no special name before the ZONE_DMA32 patches.
With that they are called dma32 zone.
-Andi
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