William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:40:58PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Seems about right.  There's also the buffer_heads_over_limit logic in
> > mm/vmscan.c and fs/buffer.c.  That logic has a hole in that it requires
> > that there be a highmem shortage before we start to reclaim the lowmem
> > buffer_heads, but it is somewhat helpful.
> 
> It would be beneficial to close the hole in that logic.

Really?  Who's hurting?

> Do you have any
> particularly preferred methods in mind?
> 

None that are particularly elegant.  One approach might be to trigger a
highmem zone scan when we hit the limit, and to somehow tell that scan to
only do buffer_head stripping.
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