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    [PATCH] don't shrink slab for highmem allocations · 5a08774a
    Andrew Morton authored
    From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
    
    If one's goal is to free highmem pages, shrink_slab() is an ineffective
    method of recovering them, as slab pages are all ZONE_NORMAL or ZONE_DMA.
    Hence, this "FIXME: do not do for zone highmem".  Presumably this is a
    question of policy, as highmem allocations may be satisfied by reaping slab
    pages and handing them back; but the FIXME says what we should do.
    5a08774a
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