Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] [RESEND] Change default MSGMNI tunable to scale with lowmem

2008-01-15 Thread Nadia Derbey
Resending with the right address for the containers mailing list. So sorry... Nadia Derbey wrote: Hi, Yesterday, I posted to lkml a series of patches that make the ipc tunable msgmni scale with lowmem (see thread http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/14/196). Since these patches watch for memory hot

[RFC PATCH 0/4] [RESEND] Change default MSGMNI tunable to scale with lowmem

2008-01-15 Thread Nadia Derbey
Hi, Yesterday, I posted to lkml a series of patches that make the ipc tunable msgmni scale with lowmem (see thread http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/14/196). Since these patches watch for memory hotplug notifications, I thought that comments from linux-mm people would be interesting. Also, since

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] [RESEND] Change default MSGMNI tunable to scale with lowmem

2008-01-15 Thread Matt Helsley
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 10:06 +0100, Nadia Derbey wrote: > I'm realizing that I wrote Andrew's address wrong. So please if ever > you're answering in this thread correct his address by hand. > Sorry for that! > Now if you find it more convenient that I start a new thread with the > right address,

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] [RESEND] Change default MSGMNI tunable to scale with lowmem

2008-01-15 Thread Nadia Derbey
I'm realizing that I wrote Andrew's address wrong. So please if ever you're answering in this thread correct his address by hand. Sorry for that! Now if you find it more convenient that I start a new thread with the right address, please tell me and I'll do it. Regards, Nadia -- To unsubscr

[RFC PATCH 0/4] [RESEND] Change default MSGMNI tunable to scale with lowmem

2008-01-14 Thread Nadia . Derbey
Resending the set of patches after Andrew's remark about the fact that we should take the lowmem into account, rather than the total ram. Also, these patches have been enhanced with memory hotplug management. Note: they now have to applied to 2.6.24-rc7. --- On large systems we