linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] vmevent: Implement 'low memory' attribute

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Message-ID: <CAOJsxLGxKdDnw6RU=1C3VVrwZJ53k_r6gOddYkjxQxjc1-kRXg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 May 2012 11:10:12 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>
Cc:	Leonid Moiseichuk <leonid.moiseichuk@...ia.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
	patches@...aro.org, kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] vmevent: Implement 'low memory' attribute

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Anton Vorontsov
<anton.vorontsov@...aro.org> wrote:
> Accounting only free pages is very inaccurate for low memory handling,
> so we have to be smarter here.

Can you elaborate on what kind of problems there are with tracking free pages?
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