Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:23:50 -0400 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: inactive-clean list |
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Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >>>Maybe we need a NR_UNSTABLE that includes pinned pages? >> >>The point of what we decided on Sunday was that we want to count the >>pages that we KNOW are easy to free. So all of these should be >>taken out of the count before we take it. > > > Unmapped clean pages are easily freeable and do not have these issues. > Could we just use that for now? Otherwise we have to add counters to the > categories that we do not track for now and take them out of the count.
Yup, I think that covers everything.
M.
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