From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
akpm@zip.com.au, riel@conectiva.com.br,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM strict overcommit, again
Date: 21 Jul 2002 14:46:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027259191.16818.94.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1027216974.1116.996.camel@sinai>
On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 03:02, Robert Love wrote:
> OK, here we go again...
>
> Attached patch implements VM strict overcommit with the following
> changes over the previous patch:
Looks good to me
> - (unrelated to the controversy) back out some of the shmem
> changes. I am weary of them and they would be best brought
> forward from 2.4-ac in pieces. 2.4-ac, btw, has quite
> a few shmem fixes.
This is probably wise. Its partly complicated by the fact that the shmem
changes are in part very recent (Hugh fixed a load) and also by the fact
-ac has a vm callback for when a page cache page is freed up which is
used by the shmem code I have
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-21 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-21 2:02 Robert Love
2002-07-21 13:46 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-07-21 17:49 ` Robert Love
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