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Subject: Re: hash table sizes
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From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes)
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:07:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> the size of these tables dependent upon the number of dentries/inodes/etc
> which the system is likely to support.  And that does depend upon the
> amount of direct-addressible memory.
> 
> 
> So hum.  As a starting point, what happens if we do:
> 
> -	vfs_caches_init(num_physpages);
> +	vfs_caches_init(min(num_physpages, pages_in_ZONE_NORMAL));
> 
> ?

Something like that might be ok, but on our system, all memory is in
ZONE_DMA...

Jesse