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From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	taka@valinux.co.jp, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [-mm] Make the memory controller more desktop responsive
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 18:43:51 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080403184351.42de4f56.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080403093253.8944.10168.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:02:53 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> This patch makes the memory controller more responsive on my desktop.
> 
> Here is what the patch does
> 
> 1. Reduces the number of retries to 2. We had 5 earlier, since we
>    were controlling swap cache as well. We pushed data from mappings
>    to swap cache and we needed additional passes to clear out the cache.

Hmm, what this change improves ?
I don't want to see OOM.

> 2. It sets all cached pages as inactive. We were by default marking
>    all pages as active, thus forcing us to go through two passes for
>    reclaiming pages
Agreed.

> 3. Removes congestion_wait(), since we already have that logic in
>    do_try_to_free_pages()
> 
Agreed.

Thanks,
-Kame

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-03  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-03  9:32 Balbir Singh
2008-04-03  9:43 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [this message]
2008-04-03  9:44   ` Balbir Singh
2008-04-03  9:55     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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