Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:30:13 +0900 | From | Minchan Kim <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Revert "page-writeback.c: subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory" |
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 06:58:54PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > This reverts commit 75f7ad8e043d9383337d917584297f7737154bbf. It was > the result of a problem observed with a 3.2 kernel and merged in 3.9, > while the issue had been resolved upstream in 3.3 (ab8fabd mm: exclude > reserved pages from dirtyable memory). > > The "reserved pages" are a superset of min_free_kbytes, thus this > change is redundant and confusing. Revert it. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Absolutely true and I pointed it out at that time but ignored and merged. :( http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2013/01/msg00538.html Even, not Cced so I couldn't notice it until you send out this patch.
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
-- Kind regards, Minchan Kim
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