From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:54:12 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: 2.4.0-t9p7 and mmap002 - freeze In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mike Galbraith Cc: Roger Larsson , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: 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 -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 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/