From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <43CDBCBF.8080309@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:57:51 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC] Additional features for zone reclaim References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: ak@suse.de, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Christoph Lameter wrote: > This patch adds the ability to shrink the cache if a zone runs out of > memory or to start swapping out pages on a node. The slab shrink > has some issues since it is global and not related to the zone. > One could add support for zone specifications to the shrinker to > make that work. Got a patch halfway done that would modify all > shrinkers to take an additional zone parameters. But is that worth it? > I have a patch somewhere that does that. Never worked out if it was worth it or not. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- 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