- We do need to avoid memory fragmentation, since we need
large memory blocks for DMA etc...
- We _are_ thinking about using a zone allocator for memory
usage, so that we can avoid the fragmentation (and do some
easy page-coloring tricks on >16M machines).
We'll probably push this into the kernel in the early
2.3.x series...
Rik.
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