Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH]: show_free_area shows free pages in pcp list | From | Rohit Seth <> | Date | Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:37:25 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 11:36 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Rohit Seth wrote: > > > > Its the number of free pages used by the pcp list. > > As you said, pcp is a cache of free pages. From pcp's point-of-view, > > this is a count of free pages that is available for use. > > This is the number of free pages on the list. Its the number of free > pages "used" by the list and no longer accounted for by the zone > free_pages count. >
As we are dumping the information so putting the field name "count" itself makes more sense.
-rohit
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