On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Andrew Morton wrote: > > +#define UNMAPPED_PAGE_RATIO 16 > > Well. Giving 16 a name didn't really clarify anything. Attentive > readers will want to know what this does, why 16 was chosen and what > the effects of changing it will be.
The meaning is analoguous to the other zone reclaim ratio. But yes it should be justified and defined. > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> > > So you're OK with shoving all this flotsam into 100,000,000 cellphones? > This was a pretty outrageous patchset! This is a feature that has been requested over and over for years. Using /proc/vm/drop_caches for fixing situations where one simply has too many page cache pages is not so much fun in the long run. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
