Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 10:16:32 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>,
       Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
cc: Chris Ross <chris@tebibyte.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-mm@kvack.org, Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
       Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
       "Martin MOKREJ?" <mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz>, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills
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> My patch compared to yours will only save .text/.data/.bss bloat (i.e.
> the opposite of what Martin was worried about) to avoid message passing
> via global variable w/o locks from task context to kswapd.

Heh, I wasn't really worried about the code size at all ... I was just 
pointing out that 1 page was a trivial amount to be worried about, in
terms of when we start reclaim.

M.

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