From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 16:11:13 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: vm lock contention reduction Message-ID: <20020705231113.GA25360@holomorphy.com> References: <3D24F869.2538BC08@zip.com.au> <3D2501FA.4B14EB14@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D2501FA.4B14EB14@zip.com.au> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Rik van Riel , Andrea Arcangeli , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Linus Torvalds List-ID: On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 07:18:34PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Of course, that change means that we wouldn't be able to throttle > page allocators against IO any more, and we'd have to do something > smarter. What a shame ;) This is actually necessary IMHO. Some testing I've been able to do seems to reveal the current throttling mechanism as inadequate. Cheers, Bill -- 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/