Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Wed Jun 06 2007 - 18:05:37 EST


On Wednesday, June 6, 2007 3:03 pm Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Mem: 8039620k total, 7936472k used, 103148k free, 708k
> buffers Mem: 8039608k total, 969380k used, 7070228k free,
> 1232k buffers
>
> I am curious, why does the patch != the mem=8832M?

I'm not sure... can you post your e820 map from boot and the contents
of /proc/mtrr? Maybe my patch is trimming off a few too many pages, or
maybe 8832M isn't quite right and actually ends up leaving you with a
few uncached pages.

Jesse
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