From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:30:42 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-zone kswapd process Message-ID: <20020913213042.GD3530@holomorphy.com> References: <3D815C8C.4050000@us.ibm.com> <3D81643C.4C4E862C@digeo.com> <20020913045938.GG2179@holomorphy.com> <1031922352.9056.14.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1031922352.9056.14.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Alan Cox 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. On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:05:52PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > It will also increase the amount of disk head thrashing surely ? I doubt it. Writeout isn't really supposed to happen there in 2.4 either, except under duress. OTOH I've not been doing much with this directly since rmap10c. 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/