From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 22:00:37 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: instrumentation patch for shrink_mmap to find cause of failures - it did :-) In-Reply-To: <393D867F.87DE4DBC@norran.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Roger Larsson Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Roger Larsson wrote: > What to do about it: > a) Move the zone check early - buffers may get old... > b) Undo counting before continuing due to wrong zone a) is a non-issue since the buffers will get old just as well if there's no memory pressure and shrink_mmap isn't run I think your patch (from the other email) is the correct one for the current MM structure. I'm definately taking your results into account for the active/inactive/scavenge list thing I'm working on right now. regards, Rik -- The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network of people. That is its real strength. Wanna talk about the kernel? irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ -- 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/