From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 426746B0047 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:51:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:51:48 +0100 From: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: zone state overhead Message-ID: <20100928135148.GM8187@csn.ul.ie> References: <20100928050801.GA29021@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com> <20100928133059.GL8187@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Shaohua Li , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 08:40:15AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > Which of these is better or is there an alternative suggestion on how > > this livelock can be avoided? > > We need to run some experiments to see what is worse. Lets start by > cutting both the stats threshold and the drift thing in half? > Ok, I have no problem with that although again, I'm really not in the position to roll patches for it right now. I don't want to get side-tracked. > > As a heads up, I'm preparing for exams at the moment and while I'm online, I'm > > not in the position to prototype patches and test them at the moment but can > > review alternative proposals if people have them. I'm also out early next week. > > Exams? You are finally graduating? > Depends on how they go :) -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- 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