From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, MM mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: [patch] balanced highmem subsystem under pre7-9
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:12:20 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005120910130.4909-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qwwhfc45ef3.fsf@sap.com>
On 12 May 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
>
> Your patch breaks my tests again (Which run fine for some time now on
> pre7):
Notsurprising, actually.
Never balancing highmem pages will also mean that they never get swapped
out. Which makes sense - why should we try to page anything out if we're
not interested in having any free pages for that zone?
So at some point the VM subsystem will just give up: 90% of the pages it
sees are unswappable, and it still cannot make room to free pages..
Linus
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-08 17:21 [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed Zlatko Calusic
2000-05-08 17:43 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-08 18:16 ` Zlatko Calusic
2000-05-08 18:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-08 18:46 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-08 18:53 ` Zlatko Calusic
2000-05-08 19:04 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-09 7:56 ` Daniel Stone
2000-05-09 8:25 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-05-09 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-09 16:12 ` Simon Kirby
2000-05-09 17:42 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-05-09 19:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-10 11:25 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-05-10 11:50 ` Zlatko Calusic
2000-05-11 23:40 ` Mark Hahn
2000-05-10 4:05 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2000-05-10 7:29 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2000-05-11 0:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-11 0:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-11 16:36 ` [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed (pre7-9) Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan
2000-05-11 1:04 ` [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed Juan J. Quintela
2000-05-11 1:53 ` Simon Kirby
2000-05-11 7:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-11 14:17 ` Simon Kirby
2000-05-11 23:38 ` Simon Kirby
2000-05-12 0:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-12 2:51 ` [RFC][PATCH] shrink_mmap avoid list_del (Was: Re: [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed) Roger Larsson
2000-05-11 11:15 ` [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed Rik van Riel
2000-05-11 5:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-11 10:09 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2000-05-11 17:25 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-05-11 23:25 ` [patch] balanced highmem subsystem under pre7-9 Ingo Molnar
2000-05-11 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-12 0:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 0:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 9:02 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-05-12 9:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 11:49 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-05-12 16:12 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2000-05-12 10:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-05-12 12:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 12:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-05-12 13:20 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-12 16:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 17:15 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-12 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-12 18:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-12 19:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 19:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 19:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 22:48 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-13 11:57 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-05-13 12:03 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-13 12:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-13 14:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-19 1:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-05-19 15:03 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-19 16:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-05-19 17:05 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-19 22:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-11 11:12 ` [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed Christoph Rohland
2000-05-11 17:38 ` Steve Dodd
2000-05-09 10:21 ` Rik van Riel
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