From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from neon.transmeta.com (neon-best.transmeta.com [206.184.214.10]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA13810 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:42:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:41:51 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: useless report -- perhaps memory allocation problems in 2.1.12[678] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Rik van Riel , Jeffrey Hundstad , Linux MM List-ID: On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But whether kswapd should go page-synchronous at some point? Maybe. I can > see arguments both for and against (the "for" argument is that we prefer > to have more intense bouts of IO followed by a nice clean wait, while the > "against" argument is that maybe we want to spread out the thing). Oh, well, I'm currently leaning for "for", which means your patch to page_io.c is what I have now.. I don't like "trickling" pages by running out of requests or something like that, so having the occasional nice wait is probably best. Linus -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org