From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:56:40 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] kswapd shall not sleep during page shortage Message-Id: <20041109185640.32c8871b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <419181D5.1090308@cyberone.com.au> References: <20041109164642.GE7632@logos.cnet> <20041109121945.7f35d104.akpm@osdl.org> <20041109174125.GF7632@logos.cnet> <20041109133343.0b34896d.akpm@osdl.org> <20041109182622.GA8300@logos.cnet> <20041109142257.1d1411e1.akpm@osdl.org> <4191675B.3090903@cyberone.com.au> <419181D5.1090308@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: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Nick Piggin 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. -- 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