From: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit accounting for 2.4.32/2.4.33-pre1
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:37:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <986ed62e0512301137o3ee36bf1yadac63784cb75dd3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051230183308.GA2501@w.ods.org>
On 12/30/05, Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 07:17:46PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
[snip discussion not directly related to the timing of my patch submission]
> > Also I think, to be honest, that this is a feature that is getting
> > unsuitable for the "bugfixes only" 2.4 kernel series....
>
> Agreed, it really is too late IMHO, because there's a non-null risk of
> introducing new bugs with it. It would have been cool a few months
> earlier. That won't stop me from trying it in my own tree however ;-)
Yeah, I know it's a little bit late. I wish I had been able to get
this done a few months ago... :(
Oh well, even if it doesn't get into the tree, at least it looks like
I might not be the only person to benefit from this patch. :) (BTW,
you'll probably also want the patch I just posted, which adds
Committed_AS to /proc/meminfo.)
--
-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-30 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-30 7:44 Barry K. Nathan
2005-12-30 17:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-12-30 18:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-30 18:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-12-30 19:37 ` Barry K. Nathan [this message]
2005-12-30 20:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-12-30 20:06 Al Boldi
2005-12-30 20:18 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-12-30 20:51 ` Al Boldi
2005-12-30 21:44 ` Willy TARREAU
2005-12-31 0:55 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-31 4:59 ` Al Boldi
2005-12-31 7:38 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-12-31 14:02 ` Al Boldi
2005-12-31 14:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-12-31 14:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-31 14:58 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-12-31 15:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-31 17:36 ` Al Boldi
2006-01-01 9:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
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