From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:32:05 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [patch] first bit of vm balancing fixes for 2.3.52-1 In-Reply-To: <200003140023.QAA09732@google.engr.sgi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Kanoj Sarcar Cc: Ben LaHaise , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Kanoj Sarcar wrote: > > It's certainly "different", and LRU list itself will obviously not be as > > "least recently used" as a global LRU. However, considering that we're > > only using the LRU on a per-zone basis anyway, I think it should give the > > same basic behaviour, no? > > Hmm, true ... I would like Ben to look over the low_on_memory and > zone_wake_kswapd setting/clearing part though. The more the merrier. Before new releases we've always had a "tuning" period with tons of sometimes arbitrary patches going in to make performance smooth on different classes of machines (16MB - 4GB is quite the range to try to cover ;). Linus -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/