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From: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] meminfo: add Cached underflow check
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:41:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050404224145.GJ10693@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050404151049.53a30133.akpm@osdl.org>


On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:10:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com> wrote:
> >
> > Working on some code lately I've been getting huge values
> > for "Cached".  The cause is that get_page_cache_size() is an
> > approximate value, and for a sufficiently small returned value
> > of get_page_cache_size() the value underflows.
> 
> OK..
> 
> I think I'd prefer to do it this way - it's simpler and the original patch
> had a teeny race wrt changes in total_swapcache_pages.

Fine by me.

mh

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Martin Hicks   ||   Silicon Graphics Inc.   ||   mort@sgi.com

      reply	other threads:[~2005-04-04 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-04 15:11 [PATCH] meminfo: add Cached underflow check Martin Hicks
2005-04-04 22:10 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-04 22:41   ` Martin Hicks [this message]

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