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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mel@csn.ul.ie
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Display 0 in meminfo for Committed_AS when value underflows
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:15:37 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0904271214580.31916@qirst.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1240848914.29485.52.camel@nimitz>

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Dave Hansen wrote:

> Yeah, this is the right fix for now until we can iron out the base
> issues.  Eric, I think this may also be a candidate for -stable.

Is there any way you could use a ZVC there? Those already have the
underflow prevention logic. See include/linux/vmstat.h and mm/vmstat.c

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-27 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-27 16:10 Eric B Munson
2009-04-27 16:15 ` Dave Hansen
2009-04-27 16:15   ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2009-04-27 19:52   ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-27 20:06     ` Dave Hansen

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