Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936301AbXFFWN6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:13:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935159AbXFFWNt (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:13:49 -0400 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([75.144.35.66]:42925 "EHLO lucidpixels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935349AbXFFWNr (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:13:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:13:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Justin Piszcz X-X-Sender: jpiszcz@p34.internal.lan To: Jesse Barnes cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs In-Reply-To: <200706061505.11741.jesse.barnes@intel.com> Message-ID: References: <200706061229.24486.jesse.barnes@intel.com> <200706061505.11741.jesse.barnes@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 931 Lines: 28 On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Wednesday, June 6, 2007 3:03 pm Justin Piszcz wrote: >> Mem: 8039620k total, 7936472k used, 103148k free, 708k >> buffers Mem: 8039608k total, 969380k used, 7070228k free, >> 1232k buffers >> >> I am curious, why does the patch != the mem=8832M? > > I'm not sure... can you post your e820 map from boot and the contents > of /proc/mtrr? Maybe my patch is trimming off a few too many pages, or > maybe 8832M isn't quite right and actually ends up leaving you with a > few uncached pages. > > Jesse > Unless you know of some other way I can capture the output, it only starts showing the dmesg from [50..] onward. Justin. - 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/