From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932128AbWDFCpF (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 22:45:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751346AbWDFCpF (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 22:45:05 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:2945 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751345AbWDFCpE (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 22:45:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 19:43:44 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Con Kolivas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck@vds.kolivas.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: Respin: [PATCH] mm: limit lowmem_reserve Message-Id: <20060405194344.1915b57a.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200604061129.41658.kernel@kolivas.org> References: <200604021401.13331.kernel@kolivas.org> <200604041235.59876.kernel@kolivas.org> <200604061110.35789.kernel@kolivas.org> <200604061129.41658.kernel@kolivas.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Con Kolivas wrote: > > It is possible with a low enough lowmem_reserve ratio to make > zone_watermark_ok fail repeatedly if the lower_zone is small enough. Is that actually a problem? From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 19:43:44 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Respin: [PATCH] mm: limit lowmem_reserve Message-Id: <20060405194344.1915b57a.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200604061129.41658.kernel@kolivas.org> References: <200604021401.13331.kernel@kolivas.org> <200604041235.59876.kernel@kolivas.org> <200604061110.35789.kernel@kolivas.org> <200604061129.41658.kernel@kolivas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Con Kolivas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck@vds.kolivas.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Con Kolivas wrote: > > It is possible with a low enough lowmem_reserve ratio to make > zone_watermark_ok fail repeatedly if the lower_zone is small enough. Is that actually a problem? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org