From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 02:04:25 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: More vm benchmarking Message-Id: <20040225020425.2c409844.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <403C7181.6050103@cyberone.com.au> References: <403C66D2.6010302@cyberone.com.au> <20040225014757.4c79f2af.akpm@osdl.org> <403C7181.6050103@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: > > >Dunno. Maybe the workload prefers imbalanced zone scanning. > > > > > > Seriously? I find that a bit hard to swallow. Especially > considering I wouldn't have anything that uses ZONE_DMA > on this system. Could be. Suppose we have a bunch of really-hard-to-reclaim pages which only get reclaimed when we're under extreme pressure. The pages which get placed there live longer than they should, thus avoiding later periods of extreme pressure. Sounds like crap, but it might be true ;) I'll do the pgsteal_lo splitup. -- 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