Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc7

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> We could make them both unsigned, and _add_ everything to min rather than
> subtracting from free_pages?

Yeah, that's the right thing to do, probably. However, since we do that 
"min >>=1" thing, we'd have to do that to a separate "correction" factor 
(also unsigned).

No worth it for 2.6.20. I just reverted it. But feel free to send the 
fixed/updated micro-optimization after 2.6.20 has been released..

		Linus
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