Re: extra free kbytes tunable

2013-02-17 Thread dormando
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 02/15/2013 05:21 PM, Seiji Aguchi wrote: > > Rik, Satoru, > > > > Do you have any comments? > > IIRC at the time the patch was rejected as too inelegant. > > However, nobody else seems to have come up with a better plan, and > there are users in need

RE: extra free kbytes tunable

2013-02-15 Thread Satoru Moriya
On 02/15/2013 05:21 PM, Seiji Aguchi wrote: > Rik, Satoru, > > Do you have any comments? > > Seiji Hmm, this seems what we wanted to know in the previous thread. Because extra_free_kbytes is quite simple and it fixes the problem, it should be merged into upstream. Regards, Satoru >> -Ori

Re: extra free kbytes tunable

2013-02-15 Thread Rik van Riel
On 02/15/2013 05:21 PM, Seiji Aguchi wrote: Rik, Satoru, Do you have any comments? IIRC at the time the patch was rejected as too inelegant. However, nobody else seems to have come up with a better plan, and there are users in need of a fix for this problem. I would still like to see a fix f

RE: extra free kbytes tunable

2013-02-15 Thread Seiji Aguchi
Rik, Satoru, Do you have any comments? Seiji > -Original Message- > From: linux-kernel-ow...@vger.kernel.org > [mailto:linux-kernel-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of dormando > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 9:01 PM > To: Rik van Riel > Cc: Randy Dunlap; Satoru Moriya; linux-kernel@v