From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] add throttle to shrink_zone()
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:12:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080608131203.e8cd69b7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080605021505.306358710@jp.fujitsu.com>
On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:12:15 +0900 kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com wrote:
> add throttle to shrink_zone() for performance improvement and prevent incorrect oom.
We should have a description of how all this works, please. I thought
that was present in earlier iterations of this patchset.
It's quite hard and quite unreliable to reverse engineer both the
design and your thinking from the implementation.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-08 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-05 2:12 [PATCH 0/5] page reclaim throttle v7 kosaki.motohiro
2008-06-05 2:06 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-06-05 2:23 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-05 2:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] fix incorrect variable type of do_try_to_free_pages() kosaki.motohiro
2008-06-05 1:26 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-05 2:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] introduce get_vm_event() kosaki.motohiro
2008-06-05 1:29 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-05 2:12 ` [PATCH 3/5] change return type of shrink_zone() kosaki.motohiro
2008-06-05 2:12 ` [PATCH 4/5] add throttle to shrink_zone() kosaki.motohiro
2008-06-08 20:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-06-09 0:38 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-05 2:12 ` [PATCH 5/5] introduce sysctl of throttle kosaki.motohiro
2008-06-08 20:09 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-09 0:37 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-08 20:10 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-09 0:34 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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