From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 04:07:29 -0200 (BRST) From: Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: Yet another bogus piece of do_try_to_free_pages() 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: Rik van Riel Cc: Zlatko Calusic , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 11 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: > > > I have tested it for you and results are great. On some tests I got > > 20% to 30% better results which is amazing. I'll do some more tests > > but I would vote for this to get in immediately. Yes, it's *so* good. > > Don't be so rash. > > The patch hasn't been tested very thoroughly, otherwise > people would have noticed the problem that PG_MEMALLOC > isn't set around the page freeing code, possibly leading > to deadlocks, triple faults and other nasties. Look at 2.4.1pre8. -- 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/