Re: Re: [PATCH] meminfo:Don't Account Shared memory in MemAvailable

From: David Rientjes
Date: Wed Jan 13 2016 - 19:47:56 EST


On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Manjeet Pawar wrote:

> >> Instead of using watermark we should subtract SHMEM from pagecache for
> >> accounting in available memory
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang
> >> Signed-off-by: Manjeet Pawar
> >> Reviewed-by: Ajeet Yadav
>
> >What's missing from your commit description is: why?
> Nothing is missing from the commit description, I think this is enough to explain about the patch.
> Commit Description : Instead of using watermark we should subtract SHMEM from pagecache for accounting in available memory.

NACK to your patch until proper justification for a user-facing change is
provided.