Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:53:09 -0500 (EST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][1/2] adjust dirty threshold for lowmem-only mappings |
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> nr_free_buffer_pages exists exactly to avoid taking highmem into account > for the dirty memory limits. 2.6 must also ignore highmem in the dirty > memory limits like 2.4 does. I'd be surprised if somebody broke this in > 2.6.
2.6 does not ignore highmem when calculating the dirty memory limits, which is causing problems. That's why I sent in the patch in the first place ;)
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