From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: inactive-clean list
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:23:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44BD0B16.6050606@mbligh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607180855090.31431@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>
>>>Maybe we need a NR_UNSTABLE that includes pinned pages?
>>
>>The point of what we decided on Sunday was that we want to count the
>>pages that we KNOW are easy to free. So all of these should be
>>taken out of the count before we take it.
>
>
> Unmapped clean pages are easily freeable and do not have these issues.
> Could we just use that for now? Otherwise we have to add counters to the
> categories that we do not track for now and take them out of the count.
Yup, I think that covers everything.
M.
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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: inactive-clean list
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:23:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44BD0B16.6050606@mbligh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607180855090.31431@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>
>>>Maybe we need a NR_UNSTABLE that includes pinned pages?
>>
>>The point of what we decided on Sunday was that we want to count the
>>pages that we KNOW are easy to free. So all of these should be
>>taken out of the count before we take it.
>
>
> Unmapped clean pages are easily freeable and do not have these issues.
> Could we just use that for now? Otherwise we have to add counters to the
> categories that we do not track for now and take them out of the count.
Yup, I think that covers everything.
M.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-18 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-17 20:24 [PATCH] mm: inactive-clean list Peter Zijlstra
2006-07-17 20:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-07-18 3:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 3:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 12:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-07-18 12:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-07-18 13:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 13:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 13:55 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-07-18 13:55 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-07-18 13:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 13:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 15:12 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-07-18 15:12 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-07-18 15:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 15:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 16:23 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2006-07-18 16:23 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-07-18 14:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 14:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 14:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-18 14:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-18 14:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 14:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 15:59 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-18 15:59 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-23 5:50 ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-23 5:50 ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-24 18:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-24 18:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-24 19:00 ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-24 19:00 ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-25 20:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-25 20:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-25 21:37 ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-25 21:37 ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-25 23:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-25 23:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 0:02 ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-26 0:02 ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-26 0:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 0:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 11:00 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-26 11:00 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-26 11:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-07-26 11:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-07-26 13:04 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-26 13:04 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-26 14:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-07-26 14:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-07-27 11:16 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-27 11:16 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-26 15:41 ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-26 15:41 ` Rik van Riel
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