From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:04:08 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [BENCHMARKS] Namesys VM patches improve kbuild Message-Id: <20040121230408.7b8b9a92.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <400F738A.40505@cyberone.com.au> References: <400F630F.80205@cyberone.com.au> <20040121223608.1ea30097.akpm@osdl.org> <400F738A.40505@cyberone.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Nikita@Namesys.COM List-ID: Nick Piggin wrote: > > By the way, what > do you think of this? Did I miss something non obvious? > > Seems to make little difference on the benchmarks. Without the patch, > the active list would generally be attacked more aggressively. > > > > [vm-fix-shrink-zone.patch text/plain (2741 bytes)] > > Use the actual number of pages difference when trying to keep the inactive > list 1/2 the size of the active list (1/3 the size of all pages) instead of > a meaningless ratio. Frankly, that `ratio' thing has always hurt my brain, so I left it as-is from 2.4 because it never caused any obvious problems. If we can put some clearer rationale behind what we're doing in there then great. -- 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/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org