From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40226C49.4010307@cyberone.com.au> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 03:16:09 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat" References: <20040205014405.5a2cf529.akpm@osdl.org> <40222D4B.6050608@cyberone.com.au> <68430000.1075997516@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <68430000.1075997516@[10.10.2.4]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Martin J. Bligh wrote: >--Nick Piggin wrote (on Thursday, February 05, 2004 22:47:23 +1100): > > >>Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> >>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2/2.6.2-mm1/ >>> >>> >>>- Merged some page reclaim fixes from Nick and Nikita. These yield some >>> performance improvements in low memory and heavy paging situations. >>> >>> >>> >>Nikita's vm-dont-rotate-active-list.patch still has this: >> >>+/* dummy pages used to scan active lists */ >>+static struct page scan_pages[MAX_NUMNODES][MAX_NR_ZONES]; >>+ >> >>Which probably needs its nodes and cachelines untangled. >>Maybe it doesn't - I really don't know. >> > >The idle toad's way is to shove it in the pgdat. >Maybe even the zone structure? > > It logically belongs in the zone structure, but apparently dependancies will not allow that right now. -- 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: aart@kvack.org