From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id A25A938CE7 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:03:54 -0300 (EST) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:03:35 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH NG] alloc_pages_limit & pages_min In-Reply-To: <200108231856.f7NIuhv12558@mailg.telia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Roger Larsson Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Roger Larsson wrote: > On Thursdayen den 23 August 2001 20:44, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Roger Larsson wrote: > > > f we did get one page => we are above pages_min > > > try to reach pages_low too. > > > > Yeah, but WHY ? > > * Historic reasons - I feel good at that limit... :-) > MIN the limit never crossed Never crossed by (free + clean) pages. I see no reason why we couldn't leave the free-only target at this limit... > LOW center, our target of free pages - when all zones time to free. Meaning we'll usually not have any clean pages around but only free pages if your patch gets applied ;) > HIGH limit were to stop the freeing. Rik -- IA64: a worthy successor to the i860. http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/