From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 08:11:57 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat" Message-ID: <68430000.1075997516@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <40222D4B.6050608@cyberone.com.au> References: <20040205014405.5a2cf529.akpm@osdl.org> <40222D4B.6050608@cyberone.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: --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? M. -- 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