From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-zone kswapd process Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:44:30 +0200 References: <3D815C8C.4050000@us.ibm.com> <3D81643C.4C4E862C@digeo.com> <20020913045938.GG2179@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20020913045938.GG2179@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton Cc: Dave Hansen , "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Friday 13 September 2002 06:59, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:06:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I still don't see why it's per zone and not per node. It seems strange > > that a wee little laptop would be running two kswapds? > > kswapd can get a ton of work done in the development VM and one per > > node would, I expect, suffice? > > Machines without observable NUMA effects can benefit from it if it's > per-zone. How? -- Daniel -- 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/