On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:53:15PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:24:24 +1100 "Bron Gondwana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:54:28 -0800, "Andrew Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > said:
> > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:42:04 +1100 Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PRO
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:24:24 +1100 "Bron Gondwana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:54:28 -0800, "Andrew Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:42:04 +1100 Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > /*
> > > + * free highmem will not be subtra
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:54:28 -0800, "Andrew Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:42:04 +1100 Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> > /*
> > + * free highmem will not be subtracted from the total free memory
> > + * for calculating free ratios if vm_dirty_highmem is
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:42:04 +1100 Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> /*
> + * free highmem will not be subtracted from the total free memory
> + * for calculating free ratios if vm_dirty_highmem is true
> + */
> +int vm_dirty_highmem;
One would expect that setting dirty_highmem to true
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:53:17AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Bron Gondwana wrote:
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> > This patch includes some code cleanup from Linus and a toggle in
> > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_highmem which can be set to 1 to add the highmem
> > back to the total available memory
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Bron Gondwana wrote:
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> This patch includes some code cleanup from Linus and a toggle in
> /proc/sys/vm/dirty_highmem which can be set to 1 to add the highmem
> back to the total available memory count.
Just to verify - can you confirm that this "just fixes it" for you?
I
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:14:32PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Examples of non-broken solutions:
> (a) always use lowmem sizes (what we do now)
> (b) always use total mem sizes (sane but potentially dangerous: but the
> VM pressure should work! It has serious bounce-buffer issues, though
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