From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 23:17:15 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1/4: rework alloc_pages Message-Id: <20040805231715.2a4f6bf8.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <41131FA6.4070402@yahoo.com.au> References: <41130FB1.5020001@yahoo.com.au> <20040805221958.49049229.akpm@osdl.org> <41131732.7060606@yahoo.com.au> <20040805223725.246b0950.akpm@osdl.org> <41131FA6.4070402@yahoo.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 List-ID: Nick Piggin wrote: > > Ie, we have the (pages_low - pages_min) buffer after waking kswapd > before entering synch reclaim. Previously there was no buffer. I thought > this was the point of background reclaim. I don't know if I can explain > it any better than that sorry. Yes, that is the point. I was wondering yesterday why pages_min was no longer used for anything any more. We must have screwed things up when doing the lower zone protection stuff for NUMA. Bugger. Wanna send that patch again, with a fit-for-human-consumption description? Thanks. -- 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