From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] mm: tuning hardcoded reserved memory
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:48:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130301174852.5d568191@www.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130228034803.GB3829@localhost.localdomain>
The 3% reserve was added to the original code *because* users kept hitting
problems where they couldn't recover.
I suspect the tunable should nowdays be something related to min(3%,
someconstant), at the time we did the 3% I think 1GB was an "enterprise
system" ;)
Alan
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-01 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-27 20:56 Andrew Shewmaker
2013-02-28 22:12 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-28 3:48 ` Andrew Shewmaker
2013-03-01 2:40 ` Ric Mason
2013-03-01 22:41 ` Andrew Shewmaker
2013-03-02 0:29 ` Ric Mason
2013-03-01 17:48 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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