From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx190.postini.com [74.125.245.190]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10CD66B0006 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:49:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <50FD7FA9.6080901@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:49:29 -0500 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory References: <201301210315.r0L3FnGV021298@como.maths.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <201301210315.r0L3FnGV021298@como.maths.usyd.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, 695182@bugs.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/695182 > Signed-off-by: Paul Szabo Acked-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed -- 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