Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jul 2003 04:08:58 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.73-mm2 |
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Well, I was mostly looking for getting handed back 0 when lowmem is >> empty; I actually did realize they didn't give entirely accurate counts >> of free lowmem pages.
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:08:03PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I'm not pleading for complete accuracy, but nr_free_buffer_pages() > will never hand back 0 (if your system managed to boot). > It's a static count of present_pages (adjusted), not of > free pages. Or am I misreading nr_free_zone_pages()?
You're right. Wow, that's even more worse than I suspected.
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