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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 03:27:15 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:

> But as Linus points out, recovering from that is not that costly
> (the page will be in the swapcache mostly, its just the cost of 
> the page fault).
> 
> What about stealing the page only if the corresponding zone is
> also running unbalanced?

(this is exactly what i'm talking about.)

-- mingo

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