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Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:18:02 +0800
From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@ics.muni.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
       "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc8 big regression in VM
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On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:58:50PM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 06:50:01PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > Did the undroppable memory keep growing?
> 
> unfotunatley not any more.
>  
> > If not, we could take it as a feature instead of bug: the memory
> > mapped pages are being protected from being freed.  It's not a
> > regression either: the feature was there before 2.6.27.
> > 
> > But sure we change that if it's not the desirable behavior.
> 
> so I think the issue can be closed for now. I will reopen if I discover
> something.

OK, thank you.

Fengguang