From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:55:23 +1100 (EST) From: Rik van Riel 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: Ingo Molnar Cc: Zlatko Calusic , Marcelo Tosatti , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: > On 17 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: > > > Oh, believe me I tested that patch very thoroughly with lots of > > utilities, and it worked very very well. I don't remember that it > > fiddled anywhere with the PG_MEMALLOC flag. > > yep, same result here, Marcelo's patch is plain *wonderful*. > Combined with the block-IO changes, -pre8 is really behaving > spectacularly in under high VM or pagecache load. Oh, I'm not doubting that. I just got suspicious when Linus got asked to put it in the kernel after Zlatko tested it for a few hours ... and when I spotted a lack of flags|=PF_MEMALLOC around the thing. (but from what marcelo told me, it got fixed in -pre8) regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ -- 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/