Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 03:36:45 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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       christoph@lameter.com, riel@redhat.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
       npiggin@suse.de, magnus.damm@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] mm: supporting variables and functions for balanced zone aging
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On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:27:06PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> min_free_kbytes? This number really isn't anything to do with balancing
> and more to do with the amount of reserve kept for things like GFP_ATOMIC
> and recursive allocations. Let's not lower it ;)

Agreed. Or at the very least that should be discussed in a separate
thread, it has no relation with shrink_cache changes or anything else
related to zone aging IMHO.
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