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Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: page allocator: Calculate a better estimate of ...

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Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:43:08 GM

On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 10:08:45 +0100 Mel Gorman . wrote: > From: Christoph Lameter . > > Ordinarily watermark checks are based on the vmstat NR_FREE_PAGES as > it is cheaper than scanning a number of . lists. . ... Even if the OOM killer kills some victim > for freeing memory, it may not free memory if the . exit. path requires a new > page resulting in livelock. > > This patch introduces a zone_page_state​_snapshot() function (courtesy of > Christoph) ...

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