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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kswapd shall not sleep during page shortage
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:56:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041109185640.32c8871b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <419181D5.1090308@cyberone.com.au>

Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
>
> Shall we crank up min_free_kbytes a bit?

May as well.  or we could do something fancy in register_netdevice().

>  We could also compress the watermarks, while increasing pages_min? That
>  will increase the GFP_ATOMIC buffer as well, without having free memory
>  run away on us (eg pages_min = 2*x, pages_low = 5*x/2, pages_high = 3*x)?

There are also hidden intermediate levels for rt-policy tasks.
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-10  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-09 16:46 Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-09 20:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-09 17:41   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-09 21:33     ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-09 18:26       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-09 22:22         ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-09 20:31           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-10  0:28             ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-09 23:16               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-09 23:34                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-10  2:53                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-10 18:14               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-10 22:08                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-10  0:56           ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-10  2:49             ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-10  2:56               ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-11-10  3:12                 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-10  3:18                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-10  3:27                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-10  4:15                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-10  8:17                       ` Marcelo Tosatti

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