From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.73-mm2
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 03:51:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030701105134.GE26348@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307011137001.1161-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> It was suggested during my last round of OOM killer fixes that one of
>> my patches, which just checked nr_free_buffer_pages() > 0, should also
>> consider userspace (i.e. reclaimable at will) memory free.
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:46:34AM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> If you pursued it, wouldn't your patch also need to change
> nr_free_buffer_pages() to do what you think it does, count
> the free lowmem pages? It, and nr_free_pagecache_pages(),
> and nr_free_zone_pages(), are horribly badly named. They
> count present_pages-pages_high, they don't count free pages:
> okay for initialization estimates, useless for anything dynamic.
> Hugh
> p.s. any chance of some more imaginative Subject lines :-?
Well, I was mostly looking for getting handed back 0 when lowmem is
empty; I actually did realize they didn't give entirely accurate counts
of free lowmem pages.
-- wli
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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.73-mm2
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 03:51:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030701105134.GE26348@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307011137001.1161-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> It was suggested during my last round of OOM killer fixes that one of
>> my patches, which just checked nr_free_buffer_pages() > 0, should also
>> consider userspace (i.e. reclaimable at will) memory free.
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:46:34AM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> If you pursued it, wouldn't your patch also need to change
> nr_free_buffer_pages() to do what you think it does, count
> the free lowmem pages? It, and nr_free_pagecache_pages(),
> and nr_free_zone_pages(), are horribly badly named. They
> count present_pages-pages_high, they don't count free pages:
> okay for initialization estimates, useless for anything dynamic.
> Hugh
> p.s. any chance of some more imaginative Subject lines :-?
Well, I was mostly looking for getting handed back 0 when lowmem is
empty; I actually did realize they didn't give entirely accurate counts
of free lowmem pages.
-- wli
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-28 3:21 2.5.73-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-06-28 3:21 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-06-28 8:56 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-28 8:56 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-28 15:54 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-28 15:54 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-28 16:08 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-28 16:08 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-28 20:49 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-29 0:34 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-29 0:34 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-29 2:18 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-29 2:18 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-29 3:07 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-29 3:07 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-28 23:00 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-06-28 23:00 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-06-28 23:11 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-28 23:11 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-29 12:45 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-06-29 12:45 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-02 3:11 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-29 19:04 ` [patch] 2.5.73-mm2: let CONFIG_TC35815 depend on CONFIG_TOSHIBA_JMR3927 Adrian Bunk
2003-06-29 21:04 ` Ralf Baechle
2003-06-29 19:04 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-06-30 9:51 ` [linux-lvm] Re: 2.5.73-mm2 Wiktor Wodecki
2003-06-29 0:30 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-30 9:51 ` Wiktor Wodecki
2003-06-30 10:23 ` Joe Thornber
2003-06-30 10:41 ` Wiktor Wodecki
2003-06-30 11:41 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2003-06-30 12:29 ` Christophe Saout
2003-07-01 0:39 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-01 0:39 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-01 2:14 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-07-01 2:14 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-07-01 2:46 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-01 2:46 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-01 10:46 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Hugh Dickins
2003-07-01 10:46 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Hugh Dickins
2003-07-01 10:51 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-07-01 10:51 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-01 11:08 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Hugh Dickins
2003-07-01 11:08 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Hugh Dickins
2003-07-01 11:08 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-01 11:08 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-01 12:39 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Nikita Danilov
2003-07-01 12:39 ` 2.5.73-mm2 Nikita Danilov
2003-07-01 5:56 ` 2.5.73-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
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