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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




      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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