From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 10:34:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 10:34:01 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:777 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 10:33:00 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 16:32:33 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Rik van Riel Cc: Ben LaHaise , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.5 Message-ID: <20010526163233.U9634@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010526051156.S9634@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Sat, May 26, 2001 at 01:45:27AM -0300 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 01:45:27AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > 3) If the device driver needs to allocate something, it > has from zone->pages_min*3/4 down to zone->pages_min/4 > space to allocate stuff, this should be very useful > for swap or mmap() over the network, or to encrypted > block devices, etc... Anything supposed to work because there's enough memory between zone->pages_min*3/4 and zone->pages_min/4 is just obviously broken period. > > Can you try to simply change NR_RESERVED to say 200*MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE > > and see if it makes a difference? > > No Comment(tm) *grin* I'm having lots of fun, thanks. Andrea