From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 04:08:58 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: 2.5.73-mm2 Message-ID: <20030701110858.GF26348@holomorphy.com> References: <20030701105134.GE26348@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Well, I was mostly looking for getting handed back 0 when lowmem is >> empty; I actually did realize they didn't give entirely accurate counts >> of free lowmem pages. On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:08:03PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I'm not pleading for complete accuracy, but nr_free_buffer_pages() > will never hand back 0 (if your system managed to boot). > It's a static count of present_pages (adjusted), not of > free pages. Or am I misreading nr_free_zone_pages()? You're right. Wow, that's even more worse than I suspected. -- wli -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org