Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751078AbVIUP0p (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:26:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751076AbVIUP0p (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:26:45 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:3499 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751078AbVIUP0o (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:26:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:26:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Hugh Dickins cc: Frank van Maarseveen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jlan@sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2] fix incorrect mm->hiwater_vm and mm->hiwater_rss In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20050921121915.GA14645@janus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 802 Lines: 19 On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > > This fixes a post 2.6.11 regression in maintaining the mm->hiwater_* counters. > > It would be a good idea to CC Christoph Lameter, who I believe was the > one who very intentionally moved most of these updates out to timer tick. Right and we need to include Jay who introduced these in the first place. What is the reason to move these counters back into the performance critical vm paths? We agreed that some inaccuracy in these numbers was acceptable. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/