From: Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 22:12:05 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001132159360.13454-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0001132059590.981-100000@alpha.random>
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> --- 2.3.40pre1/mm/vmscan.c Sun Jan 9 20:45:31 2000
> +++ /tmp/vmscan.c Thu Jan 13 21:09:33 2000
> @@ -503,7 +503,7 @@
> do {
> /* kswapd is critical to provide GFP_ATOMIC
> allocations (not GFP_HIGHMEM ones). */
> - if (nr_free_buffer_pages() >= freepages.high)
> + if (nr_free_pages() - nr_free_highpages() >= freepages.high)
> break;
> if (!do_try_to_free_pages(GFP_KSWAPD, 0))
> break;
Indeed. Linus, please apply this patch...
Btw, shouldn't we make do_try_to_free_pages() a bit smarter
so that it doesn't free high memory pages when there are
enough free pages in that part of memory.
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-01-13 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-12 21:11 Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-13 13:40 ` Rik van Riel
2000-01-13 17:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-01-13 17:18 ` Alan Cox
2000-01-13 18:37 ` Rik van Riel
2000-01-13 20:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-01-13 21:12 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2000-01-13 21:40 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-14 12:25 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-01-14 13:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-01-13 18:52 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-13 19:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-01-13 21:02 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-13 21:34 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
2000-01-13 21:48 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-13 21:42 ` Alan Cox
2000-01-13 21:50 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-13 21:53 ` Alan Cox
2000-01-13 22:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-01-13 22:13 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-13 22:28 ` Rik van Riel
2000-01-13 22:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-01-13 23:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-01-13 23:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-01-14 0:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-01-14 0:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-01-14 1:08 ` Rik van Riel
2000-01-14 2:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-01-14 1:17 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-14 2:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-01-14 20:33 ` Peter Rival
2000-01-14 1:13 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-14 2:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-01-14 2:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-01-14 6:22 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-15 2:03 ` Reworked 2.3.39 zone balancing - v1 Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-14 0:28 ` [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing Andrea Arcangeli
2000-01-13 17:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-01-13 18:30 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-01-13 19:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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