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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Use ZVC counters to establish exact size of dirtyable pages
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:44:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070214154438.4a80b403.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702141521090.3615@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:35:59 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> If you want to be safe we can make sure that the number returned is > 0.

Yes, something like that (with a suitable comment) sounds like the suitable way
to avoid these problems.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-14 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-12 18:16 Use ZVC counters to establish exact size of dirtyable pages Christoph Lameter
2007-02-13  8:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-13 17:43   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-13 18:03     ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-14 22:24     ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-14 22:41       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-14 22:49         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-14 23:19         ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-14 23:35           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-14 23:44             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-02-15  0:00               ` Christoph Lameter

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