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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>, Cameron Schaus <cam@schaus.ca>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20 OOM with 8Gb RAM
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:40:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070413234010.GX2986@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070413163242.7d9283e1.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:54:33 -0700 William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>> After all this time, bdevs are still lowmem etc. Crying shame.

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 04:32:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> One would need to hunt down every use of b_data in filesystems and switch
> them to kmap the page.
> Possibly it could be done on a per-fs basis.

Queued right behind a dozen other massive sweeps for me to do.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-13 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-12 17:38 2.6.20 OOM with 8Gb RAM Cameron Schaus
2007-04-12 19:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-12 21:30   ` Cameron Schaus
2007-04-13 22:39   ` Jason Lunz
2007-04-13 22:46     ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-13 22:54       ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-13 23:32         ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-13 23:40           ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2007-04-13 23:01       ` Jason Lunz

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