Re: [patch 1/3] mm: An enhancement of OVERCOMMIT_GUESS

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:20:10 -0400
Hideo AOKI <haoki@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Kamezawa-san,
> 
> Thank you for your comments.
> 
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > Hi, AOKI-san
> I like your idea. But, in the function, I think we need to care
> lowmem_reserve too.
> 
Ah, I see.

> Since __vm_enough_memory() doesn't know zone and cpuset information,
> we have to guess proper value of lowmem_reserve in each zone
> like I did in calculate_totalreserve_pages() in my patch.
> Do you think that we can do this calculation every time?
> 
> If it is good enough, I'll make revised patch.
> 
I just thought to show "how to calculate" in unified way is better.
But if things goes ugly, please ignore my comment.

Do you have a detailed comparison of test result with and without this patch ?
I'm interested in.
I'm sorry if I missed your post of result.


Cheers!
-Kame
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