From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: free_memory_available() bug in pre-91-1
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:08:48 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.980326100729.15920A-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980325153614.17979T-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, H.H.vanRiel wrote:
> >
> > I've just found a bug in free_memory_available() as
> > implemented in pre-91-1...
>
> Ugh, yes. How about pre-91-2, which I just put out? It has more of the
> code the way I _think_ it should be, and it should try a lot harder to not
> hog the CPU with kswapd.
Actually, I was referring to the fact that free_memory_available()
returns 3 when there's not a single 128k area available...
In that case, it should return 2.
But I'll try pre-91-2.
Rik.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-03-24 23:03 free_memory_available() bug in pre-91-1 H.H.vanRiel
1998-03-25 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
1998-03-26 9:08 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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