From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:12:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] add throttle to shrink_zone() Message-Id: <20080608131203.e8cd69b7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080605021505.306358710@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20080605021211.871673550@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080605021505.306358710@jp.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com Cc: LKML , linux-mm List-ID: 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. -- 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: email@kvack.org