From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-zone kswapd process From: Alan Cox In-Reply-To: <20020913045938.GG2179@holomorphy.com> References: <3D815C8C.4050000@us.ibm.com> <3D81643C.4C4E862C@digeo.com> <20020913045938.GG2179@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 13 Sep 2002 14:05:52 +0100 Message-Id: <1031922352.9056.14.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Andrew Morton , Dave Hansen , "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 05:59, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Machines without observable NUMA effects can benefit from it if it's > per-zone. It also follows that if there's more than one task doing this, > page replacement is less likely to block entirely. Last, but not least, > when I devised it, "per-zone" was the theme. It will also increase the amount of disk head thrashing surely ? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/