From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, 695182@bugs.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:49:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50FD7FA9.6080901@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301210315.r0L3FnGV021298@como.maths.usyd.edu.au>
On 01/20/2013 10:15 PM, paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au wrote:
> When calculating amount of dirtyable memory, min_free_kbytes should be
> subtracted because it is not intended for dirty pages.
>
> Using an "extern int" because that is the only interface to some such
> sysctl values.
>
> (This patch does not solve the PAE OOM issue.)
>
> Paul Szabo psz@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
> School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
>
> Reported-by: Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>
> Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/695182
> Signed-off-by: Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-21 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-21 3:15 [PATCH] Subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory paul.szabo
2013-01-21 17:49 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2013-01-22 23:38 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-23 1:49 ` Minchan Kim
2013-01-23 3:11 ` paul.szabo
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2013-01-25 9:53 paul.szabo
2013-01-28 6:23 ` Minchan Kim
2013-01-25 13:01 Bug#695182: " Ben Hutchings
2013-01-25 23:49 ` paul.szabo
2013-01-26 0:14 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-26 15:43 ` Theodore Ts'o
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