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 13:37:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1127939845.5046.25.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0509281135080.14597@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 11:36 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Rohit Seth wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> This is the number of free pages on the list. Its the number of free
> pages "used" by the list and no longer accounted for by the zone
> free_pages count.
>
As we are dumping the information so putting the field name "count"
itself makes more sense.
-rohit
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-28 20:30 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
2005-09-28 18:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-28 20:37 ` Rohit Seth [this message]
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