From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Aubrey Li <aubreylee@gmail.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>,
"Henn, erich, Michael" <Michael.Hennerich@analog.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:56:59 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701240655400.9696@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45B75208.90208@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> With your patch, MMAP of a file that will cross the pagecache limit hangs the
> system. As I mentioned in my previous mail, without subtracting the
> NR_FILE_MAPPED, the reclaim will infinitely try and fail.
Well mapped pages are still pagecache pages.
> I have tested your patch with the attached fix on my PPC64 box.
Interesting. What is your reason for wanting to limit the size of the
pagecache?
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-24 0:49 [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache Christoph Lameter
2007-01-24 2:53 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-01-24 3:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-24 5:47 ` Aubrey Li
2007-01-24 3:00 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-24 3:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-24 3:51 ` Aubrey Li
2007-01-24 4:03 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-26 10:27 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-24 3:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-01-24 4:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-24 5:15 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-01-25 0:32 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-01-25 2:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-25 3:12 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-01-25 4:28 ` Rik van Riel
2007-01-25 5:19 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-01-25 5:40 ` Rik van Riel
2007-01-25 6:00 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-01-26 10:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-26 18:01 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-01-24 7:04 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2007-01-24 7:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-24 12:50 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-24 12:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-24 14:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-24 20:06 ` Erik Andersen
2007-01-25 2:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-25 8:07 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2007-01-24 14:22 ` Aubrey Li
2007-01-24 14:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-25 2:27 ` Aubrey Li
2007-01-24 12:33 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2007-01-24 14:56 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-01-25 4:17 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2007-01-25 4:45 ` Rik van Riel
2007-01-25 5:49 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2007-01-25 16:07 ` Rik van Riel
2007-01-25 17:57 ` Balbir Singh
2007-01-25 6:35 ` Aubrey Li
2007-01-25 6:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-25 7:49 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2007-01-25 4:18 ` Rik van Riel
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2007-01-25 14:51 ` Bodo Eggert
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