From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964845AbWDGS3y (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:29:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964847AbWDGS3y (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:29:54 -0400 Received: from smtp109.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.219]:4704 "HELO smtp109.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964848AbWDGS3x (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:29:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=M29oMbNGX+Rbczp9hJ7HGtMcDrICHaWagbPiQGitMzMk1V6CVH1QETJ4DTArXEwSZ2oCIeF1MNSbjuS033bgcUSwgcW2AHS+7PpTyWMSvqDb/6bfPSMV1mL7qkp8kW9/NWh5hTVDIh0QB584aeckHXCuclpQY66dQ97y6Jrr8P0= ; Message-ID: <44365DC2.1010806@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:40:34 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: Andrew Morton , ck@vds.kolivas.org, linux list , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: limit lowmem_reserve References: <200604021401.13331.kernel@kolivas.org> <200604061110.35789.kernel@kolivas.org> <443605E1.7060203@yahoo.com.au> <200604071902.16011.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200604071902.16011.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Con Kolivas wrote: > On Friday 07 April 2006 16:25, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>Con Kolivas wrote: >> >>>It is possible with a low enough lowmem_reserve ratio to make >>>zone_watermark_ok always fail if the lower_zone is small enough. >> >>I don't see how this would happen? > > > 3GB lowmem and a reserve ratio of 180 is enough to do it. > How would zone_watermark_ok always fail though? -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com