From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx163.postini.com [74.125.245.163]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 600346B0031 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:30:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:30:13 +0900 From: Minchan Kim Subject: Re: [patch] Revert "page-writeback.c: subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory" Message-ID: <20130725233013.GC27252@bbox> References: <1374793134-16678-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1374793134-16678-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Andrew Morton , Paul Szabo , Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 06:58:54PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > This reverts commit 75f7ad8e043d9383337d917584297f7737154bbf. It was > the result of a problem observed with a 3.2 kernel and merged in 3.9, > while the issue had been resolved upstream in 3.3 (ab8fabd mm: exclude > reserved pages from dirtyable memory). > > The "reserved pages" are a superset of min_free_kbytes, thus this > change is redundant and confusing. Revert it. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Absolutely true and I pointed it out at that time but ignored and merged. :( http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2013/01/msg00538.html Even, not Cced so I couldn't notice it until you send out this patch. Acked-by: Minchan Kim -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- 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