From: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: show_free_area shows free pages in pcp list
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:17:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1127931469.5046.13.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0509281037240.14338@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 10:40 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Seth, Rohit wrote:
>
> > [PATCH]: The count field in pcp list represents the free pages in that list.
>
> Well, lets keep it the way it is.
>
> Its the number of free pages used by the pcp list.
>
As you said, pcp is a cache of free pages. From pcp's point-of-view,
this is a count of free pages that is available for use.
> Its true that these are pages that are not "used" by the system but they
> are in use for the cache and not accounted for by the number of free
> pages.
>
>
In case free is causing any confusion then I would like to get that
changed to "count"...representing the number of elements on it (and the
field of structure just like other values).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-28 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-28 17:22 [PATCH]: show_free_area shows free pages in pcp list Seth, Rohit
2005-09-28 17:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-28 18:17 ` Rohit Seth [this message]
2005-09-28 18:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-28 20:37 ` Rohit Seth
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