Re: [PATCH 3/3] vm: writeout watermarks

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

Nikita has a customer using large percentage of RAM for a kernel module, which results in get_dirty_limits() misbehaviour

since

        unsigned long available_memory = total_pages;

It should work on the amount of cacheable pages instead.

He's got a patch but I dont remember the URL. Nikita?

Indeed. This patch has a couple of little problems anyway, and
probably does not logicaly belong as part of this series.

I'll work on previous 2 more important patches first.

My patch should probably go on top of more fundamental work
like Nikita's patch.

Thanks,
Nick

--
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -

To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

---

• References:
  • [PATCH 0/3] better zone and watermark balancing
    • From: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
  • [PATCH 1/3] vm: kswapd incmin
    • From: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
  • [PATCH 2/3] vm: highmem watermarks
    • From: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
  • [PATCH 3/3] vm: writeout watermarks
    • From: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
  • Re: [PATCH 3/3] vm: writeout watermarks
    • From: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>

• Prev by Date: Re: [PATCH 1/1] My tools break here
• Next by Date: Re: [PATCH 1/1] My tools break here
• Previous by thread: Re: [PATCH 3/3] vm: writeout watermarks
• Next by thread: Re: [PATCH 1/3] vm: kswapd incmin
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]