From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:38:58 +0900 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] add throttle to shrink_zone() In-Reply-To: <20080608131203.e8cd69b7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080605021505.306358710@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080608131203.e8cd69b7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-Id: <20080609093741.7868.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@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: Andrew Morton Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, LKML , linux-mm List-ID: > > 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. Oh, sorry. I'll write properly description soon. Thans. -- 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