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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:11:53 +0900 From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com> To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, dhowells@...hat.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, peterz@...radead.org, Enrik.Berkhan@...com, uclinux-dev@...inux.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>, Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@...com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] NOMMU: Pages allocated to a ramfs inode's pagecache may get wrongly discarded On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:00 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote: >> Hi, Kosaki-san. >> >> I think ramfs pages's unevictablility should not depend on CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU. >> It would be better to remove dependency of CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU ? >> >> How about this ? >> It's just RFC. It's not tested. >> >> That's because we can't reclaim that pages regardless of whether there is unevictable list or not > > maybe, your patch work. > > but we can remove CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU build option itself completely > after nommu folks confirmed CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU works well on their machine > > it is more cleaner IMHO. > What do you think? > > I agree your opinion, totally Let us wait nommu folks's comments. -- Kinds regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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