Re: [PATCH] VM strict overcommit, again

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 21 2002 - 08:46:31 EST


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

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