From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Zhang, Sonic" <Sonic.Zhang@analog.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH/RFC] NOMMU: drop page cache whenever any alloc fails due to low memory
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:38:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247639883.7500.193.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0F1B54C89D5F954D8535DB252AF412FA045E8C0F@chinexm1.ad.analog.com>
Please don't top post.
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 11:29 +0800, Zhang, Sonic wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra [mailto:peterz@infradead.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:31 PM
> > To: Mike Frysinger
> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> > uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org; Zhang, Sonic; David Howells
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] NOMMU: drop page cache whenever any alloc fails
> > due to low memory
> >
> > On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 10:22 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > From: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
> > >
> > > Since no-mmu systems tend to be memory constrained, we want to drop
> > > all of the page cache whenever memory gets low. The only other option
> >
> > > is to invoke the oom killer, and clearly that's not ideal.
> >
> > Uhm,.. normally reclaim will already try to drop pagecache.
> The reclaim is not that aggressive.
Well, then maybe we should fix that instead?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-15 6:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-14 14:22 Mike Frysinger
2009-07-14 14:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-07-15 3:29 ` Zhang, Sonic
2009-07-15 6:38 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
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