On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 02:55 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:52:01 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Count per BDI reclaimable pages; nr_reclaimable = nr_dirty + nr_unstable. > > hm. Aggregating dirty and unstable at inc/dec time is a bit kludgy. If > later on we want to know just "dirty" then we're in trouble. > > I can see the logic behind it though. > > Perhaps one could have separate BDI_DIRTY and BDI_UNSTABLE and treat them > separately at inc/dec time, but give them the same numerical value, so > they in fact refer to the same counter. That's kludgy too.
:-( I struggled with it too; don't have a ready solution either. I'll do whatever the consensus agrees upon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
