From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262152AbUBXERd (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:17:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262154AbUBXERd (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:17:33 -0500 Received: from mail-04.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.36]:49874 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262152AbUBXERc (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:17:32 -0500 Message-ID: <403ACEFC.4070208@cyberone.com.au> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:11:40 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Wedgwood CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] vm-fix-all_zones_ok (was Re: 2.6.3-mm3) References: <20040222172200.1d6bdfae.akpm@osdl.org> <40395ACE.4030203@cyberone.com.au> <20040222175507.558a5b3d.akpm@osdl.org> <40396ACD.7090109@cyberone.com.au> <40396DA7.70200@cyberone.com.au> <4039B4E6.3050801@cyberone.com.au> <4039BE41.1000804@cyberone.com.au> <20040223005948.10a3b325.akpm@osdl.org> <20040223224723.GA27639@dingdong.cryptoapps.com> In-Reply-To: <20040223224723.GA27639@dingdong.cryptoapps.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Wedgwood wrote: >On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:59:48AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >>We've never clearly defined whether pages_high == free_pages means >>the zone is under limits. According to __alloc_pages() it means >>that the zone is not under limits, so you've fixed two bugs there. >> > >FWIW 2.6.3-mm3 with the above fix right now seems to behave much >better in my non-contrived cases than previous kernels I've tested >with. > Out of interest, what is the worst you can make it do with contrived cases?