From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030323AbXDMXkY (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:40:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030455AbXDMXkY (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:40:24 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:53318 "EHLO holomorphy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030323AbXDMXkX (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:40:23 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:40:10 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jason Lunz , Cameron Schaus , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.20 OOM with 8Gb RAM Message-ID: <20070413234010.GX2986@holomorphy.com> References: <20070412173830.GA31323@schaus.ca> <20070412121553.c7fd3249.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070413223935.GA6783@metaxa.reflex> <20070413154653.21fdb914.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070413225433.GV2986@holomorphy.com> <20070413163242.7d9283e1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070413163242.7d9283e1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:54:33 -0700 William Lee Irwin III 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