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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
