From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 0-order allocation problem
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:50:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108151749130.1150-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108151943040.26574-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> Try this: Add a "priority" argument to page_launder(), and make the
> refill_freelist() call to page_launder() use a very low priority, and keep
> DEF_PRIORITY in the other callers.
No. Don't do this. That is 100% equivalent to just calling the function
multiple times.
And you shouldn't do that EITHER. Not alone. There may be other forms of
imbalance, and trying to address just one is bad.
Look at do_try_to_free_page(). Read it. Grok it.
Linus
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108152049100.973-100000@localhost.localdomain>
2001-08-15 20:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-15 20:55 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-15 22:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-15 22:34 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-15 23:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-08-15 22:15 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-15 22:00 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-15 22:15 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-15 23:09 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-08-15 21:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-15 23:38 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-16 0:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-08-15 22:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-16 0:50 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2001-08-16 8:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-16 10:26 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-08-16 12:18 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-16 15:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-16 16:37 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-08-17 3:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-17 11:45 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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