From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: Bufferheads & page-cache reference Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:10:44 -0800 Message-ID: <20050214221044.GX13009@holomorphy.com> References: <1108409415.20053.1278.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com> <20050214134058.1402cfed.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Badari Pulavarty , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:39623 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261597AbVBNWK4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:10:56 -0500 To: Andrew Morton Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050214134058.1402cfed.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:40:58PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Seems about right. There's also the buffer_heads_over_limit logic in > mm/vmscan.c and fs/buffer.c. That logic has a hole in that it requires > that there be a highmem shortage before we start to reclaim the lowmem > buffer_heads, but it is somewhat helpful. It would be beneficial to close the hole in that logic. Do you have any particularly preferred methods in mind? -- wli