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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: mel@skynet.ie (Mel Gorman)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, haveblue@us.ibm.com,
	apw@shadowen.org, ak@muc.de, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	paulus@samba.org, kmannth@gmail.com, tony.luck@intel.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix memmap accounting by approximating the map size
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:33:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060907083308.45e2aec6.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060907142744.GA31799@skynet.ie>

Mel wrote:
> This patch ditches the account_memmap() complexity and replaces with the
> simple approximation used by x86_64 while ensuring no underflow occurs.

Works for me, on my x86_64 box.  Thanks, Mel.

Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>

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      reply	other threads:[~2006-09-07 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-31 10:46 x86_64 account-for-memmap patch in 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 doesn't boot Paul Jackson
2006-08-31 16:17 ` Mel Gorman
2006-08-31 17:01   ` Paul Jackson
2006-09-01  8:38     ` Mel Gorman
2006-09-02  3:24       ` Paul Jackson
2006-09-04  9:45         ` Mel Gorman
2006-09-06 22:10           ` Paul Jackson
2006-09-07 14:16             ` Mel Gorman
2006-09-07 14:27               ` [PATCH] Fix memmap accounting by approximating the map size Mel Gorman
2006-09-07 15:33                 ` Paul Jackson [this message]

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