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SubjectRE: [PATCH/RFC] NOMMU: drop page cache whenever any alloc fails due to low memory
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Please don't top post.

On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 11:29 +0800, Zhang, Sonic wrote:

> From: Peter Zijlstra [mailto:peterz@infradead.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:31 PM
> > To: Mike Frysinger
> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> > uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org; Zhang, Sonic; David Howells
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] NOMMU: drop page cache whenever any alloc fails
> > due to low memory
> >
> > On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 10:22 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > From: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
> > >
> > > Since no-mmu systems tend to be memory constrained, we want to drop
> > > all of the page cache whenever memory gets low. The only other option
> >
> > > is to invoke the oom killer, and clearly that's not ideal.
> >
> > Uhm,.. normally reclaim will already try to drop pagecache.

> The reclaim is not that aggressive.

Well, then maybe we should fix that instead?


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