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SubjectRe: [patch 1/4] memcg: use native word to represent dirtyable pages
On Sun,  7 Nov 2010 23:14:36 +0100
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:

> The memory cgroup dirty info calculation currently uses a signed
> 64-bit type to represent the amount of dirtyable memory in pages.
>
> This can instead be changed to an unsigned word, which will allow the
> formula to function correctly with up to 160G of LRU pages on a 32-bit
> system, assuming 4k pages. That should be plenty even when taking
> racy folding of the per-cpu counters into account.
>
> This fixes a compilation error on 32-bit systems as this code tries to
> do 64-bit division.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Reported-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>


Thank you.

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

I couldn't read email because of vacation.



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