From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 05:54:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 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: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Rik van Riel , Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sun, 20 May 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > @@ -1054,7 +1033,7 @@ > > if (!zone->size) > > continue; > > > > - while (zone->free_pages < zone->pages_low) { > > + while (zone->free_pages < zone->inactive_clean_pages) { > > struct page * page; > > page = reclaim_page(zone); > > if (!page) > > > What you're trying to do with this change ? Just ensuring that I never had a large supply of cleaned pages laying around at a time when folks are in distress. It also ensures that you never donate your last reclaimable pages, but that wasn't the intent. It was a stray though that happened to produce measurable improvement. -Mike -- 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/