From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:57:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: inactive-clean list In-Reply-To: <44BCFA4D.9030300@mbligh.org> Message-ID: References: <1153167857.31891.78.camel@lappy> <1153224998.2041.15.camel@lappy> <44BCE86A.4030602@mbligh.org> <44BCFA4D.9030300@mbligh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel List-ID: 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. -- 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