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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:12:01 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
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Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Nikita has a customer using large percentage of RAM for 
> a kernel module, which results in get_dirty_limits() misbehaviour
> since
> 
>         unsigned long available_memory = total_pages;
> 
> It should work on the amount of cacheable pages instead.
> 
> He's got a patch but I dont remember the URL. Nikita?
> 

Indeed. This patch has a couple of little problems anyway, and
probably does not logicaly belong as part of this series.

I'll work on previous 2 more important patches first.

My patch should probably go on top of more fundamental work
like Nikita's patch.

Thanks,
Nick

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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