linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix memmap accounting by approximating the map size

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Message-Id: <20060907083308.45e2aec6.pj@sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:33:08 -0700
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	mel@...net.ie (Mel Gorman)
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org, haveblue@...ibm.com,
	apw@...dowen.org, ak@....de, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	paulus@...ba.org, kmannth@...il.com, tony.luck@...el.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, y-goto@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix memmap accounting by approximating the map size

Mel wrote:
> This patch ditches the account_memmap() complexity and replaces with the
> simple approximation used by x86_64 while ensuring no underflow occurs.

Works for me, on my x86_64 box.  Thanks, Mel.

Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@....com>

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