From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44BD0B16.6050606@mbligh.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:23:50 -0400 From: "Martin J. Bligh" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: inactive-clean list References: <1153167857.31891.78.camel@lappy> <1153224998.2041.15.camel@lappy> <44BCE86A.4030602@mbligh.org> <44BCFA4D.9030300@mbligh.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel List-ID: 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. -- 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: email@kvack.org