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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	Richard Jerrrell <jerrell@missioncriticallinux.com>,
	Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>,
	arjanv@redhat.com, alan@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap_state.c thinko
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:57:20 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0104061153350.12081-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104061849290.1331-100000@localhost.localdomain>


On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> It is, of course, remotely conceivable that I'm confused, but...
> I realize that the page cache pages (including those of swap)
> are already added into "free" by vm_enough_memory().  But it's also
> adding in nr_swap_pages

.. Ahh. Right you are. We did not just move it from the "free page" to the
"swap cache", we also didn't release the space in the actual swap space
bitmaps, and you're right, that certainly changes the accounting.

Mea culpa. Ideas?

		Linus

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-06 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-05 15:56 Ben LaHaise
2001-04-05 16:05 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-05 17:11   ` Ben LaHaise
2001-04-05 23:40     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06  0:32     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 16:31       ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 17:21         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 18:23           ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 18:57             ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2001-04-06 19:06               ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-06 18:47           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 18:37             ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 19:09               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 18:53                 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 19:14                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 19:03                   ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 20:03                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 19:12               ` Richard Jerrell
2001-04-06 19:52               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 20:22                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 21:04                   ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-07  1:27                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-09 18:16                   ` Alan Cox
2001-04-09 18:45                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-09 20:32                     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-09 20:54                       ` David L. Parsley
2001-04-10 21:07                       ` James Antill
2001-04-10 22:20                         ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-06 20:48                 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-05 17:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-05 21:39   ` Richard Jerrell
2001-04-06 20:20 Bulent Abali
2001-04-06 20:33 ` Jeff Garzik

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