From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@weiden.de>
Cc: Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@norran.net>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-t9p7 and mmap002 - freeze
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:54:12 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009291153250.23266-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.Linu.4.10.10009281625130.763-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Another thing I'm curious about is increasing memory pressure in
> the event of an allocation failure (retry). Why do we do that?
We were short on free memory, so kswapd should work /harder/
to keep up with the current load.
> P.S. in buffer.c, we do a LockPage(), but no UnlockPage() in
> the case of no_buffer_head.. is that correct?
No it isn't ;) Thanks for pointing out this one...
regards,
Rik
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-29 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-27 21:21 Roger Larsson
2000-09-28 6:31 ` Mike Galbraith
2000-09-28 10:12 ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-28 15:12 ` Mike Galbraith
2000-09-29 14:54 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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