Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:12:01 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] vm: writeout watermarks |
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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
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