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From: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com (Kanoj Sarcar)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>,
	torvalds@transmeta.com, mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:50:53 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200001132150.NAA28314@google.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E128s14-0008DB-00@the-village.bc.nu> from "Alan Cox" at Jan 13, 2000 09:42:49 PM

> 
> > doc. If you have a large number of free regular pages, and the dma
> > zone is completely exhausted, the 2.2 decision of balacing the dma
> > zone might never fetch an "yes" answer, because it is based on total
> > number of free pages, not also the per zone free pages. Right? Things 
> > will get worse the more non-dma pages there are.
> 
> We might not make good choices to free ISA DMA pages, you are correct yes

And given a huge enough HIGHMEM zone, we might not make good choices to free
regular memory too, right?

My patch would fix this problem. I am going to make the patch bigger to
fix kswapd too, then put it out in the next few hours.

Kanoj

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-01-13 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-12 21:11 Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-13 13:40 ` Rik van Riel
2000-01-13 17:06   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-01-13 17:18   ` Alan Cox
2000-01-13 18:37     ` Rik van Riel
2000-01-13 20:13       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-01-13 21:12         ` Rik van Riel
2000-01-13 21:40         ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-14 12:25           ` Jamie Lokier
2000-01-14 13:43             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-01-13 18:52   ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-13 19:59     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-01-13 21:02       ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-13 21:34         ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
2000-01-13 21:48           ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-13 21:42         ` Alan Cox
2000-01-13 21:50           ` Kanoj Sarcar [this message]
2000-01-13 21:53             ` Alan Cox
2000-01-13 22:01           ` Linus Torvalds
2000-01-13 22:13             ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-13 22:28               ` Rik van Riel
2000-01-13 22:30               ` Linus Torvalds
2000-01-13 23:53                 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-01-13 23:29                   ` Linus Torvalds
2000-01-14  0:33                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-01-14  0:52                       ` Linus Torvalds
2000-01-14  1:08                         ` Rik van Riel
2000-01-14  2:13                         ` Ingo Molnar
2000-01-14  1:17                           ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-14  2:36                             ` Ingo Molnar
2000-01-14 20:33                               ` Peter Rival
2000-01-14  1:13                       ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-14  2:27                         ` Ingo Molnar
2000-01-14  2:46                         ` Ingo Molnar
2000-01-14  6:22                           ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-15  2:03                     ` Reworked 2.3.39 zone balancing - v1 Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-14  0:28                 ` [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing Andrea Arcangeli
2000-01-13 17:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-01-13 18:30   ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-13 19:22     ` Andrea Arcangeli

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