Re: [PATCH 4/5] add isolate pages vmstat

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Mon Jul 06 2009 - 22:31:34 EST


On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:12:33 +0900 (JST)
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > It looks good to me.
> > Thanks for your effort. I added my review sign. :)
> >
> > Let remain one side note.
> > This accounting feature results from direct reclaim bomb.
> > If we prevent direct reclaim bomb, I think this feature can be removed.
>
> Hmmm. I disagree.
> isolated pages can become more than >1GB on server systems.
> Who want >1GB unaccountable memory?

I am okay if it happens without reclaim bomb on server system which
have a lot of memory as you said.

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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