On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:21:44 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > One bug fix here. > == > From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Now, at calculating dirty limit, vm_dirty_param() is called. > This function returns dirty-limit related parameters considering > memory cgroup settings. > > Now, assume that vm_dirty_bytes=100M (global dirty limit) and > memory cgroup has 1G of pages and 40 dirty_ratio, dirtyable memory is > 500MB. > > In this case, global_dirty_limits will consider dirty_limt as > 500 *0.4 = 200MB. This is bad...memory cgroup is not back door. > > This patch limits the return value of vm_dirty_param() considring > global settings. > > Sorry, this one is buggy. I'll post a new one later. Thanks, -Kame -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>