On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 03:45:28AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> fsblock is a rewrite of the "buffer layer" (ding dong the witch is
> dead), which I have been working on, on and off and is now at the stage
> where some of the basics are working-ish. This email is going to be
> long...
Long overdue.
e we start to reclaim the lowmem
>>> buffer_heads, but it is somewhat helpful.
William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It would be beneficial to close the hole in that logic.
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:31:42PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Really? Who's hurting?
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:40:58PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Seems about right. There's also the buffer_heads_over_limit logic in
> mm/vmscan.c and fs/buffer.c. That logic has a hole in that it requires
> that there be a highmem shortage before we start to reclaim the lowmem
> buffer_heads, b
