Re: [PATCH 3/3] vm: writeout watermarks

[Nick Piggin]

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Nikita has a customer using large percentage of RAM for 
> a kernel module, which results in get_dirty_limits() misbehaviour
> since
>
>         unsigned long available_memory = total_pages;
>
> It should work on the amount of cacheable pages instead.
>
> He's got a patch but I dont remember the URL. Nikita?

Indeed. This patch has a couple of little problems anyway, and
probably does not logicaly belong as part of this series.

I'll work on previous 2 more important patches first.

My patch should probably go on top of more fundamental work
like Nikita's patch.

Thanks,
Nick

--
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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