linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 23/35] Update NR_FREE

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Message-ID: <20090316165848.GQ24293@csn.ul.ie>
Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:58:48 +0000
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/35] Update NR_FREE_PAGES only as necessary

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:48:25PM -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 
> > Replaced with
> >
> > __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, -(i << order));
> 
> A later patch does that also.
> 

Silly of me. That later patch is in the "controversial" pile but the
change is now moved back here where it belongs.

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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