From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@norran.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH NG] alloc_pages_limit & pages_min
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:03:35 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108231600020.31410-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200108231856.f7NIuhv12558@mailg.telia.com>
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Roger Larsson wrote:
> On Thursdayen den 23 August 2001 20:44, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Roger Larsson wrote:
> > > f we did get one page => we are above pages_min
> > > try to reach pages_low too.
> >
> > Yeah, but WHY ?
>
> * Historic reasons - I feel good at that limit... :-)
> MIN the limit never crossed
Never crossed by (free + clean) pages. I see no reason why
we couldn't leave the free-only target at this limit...
> LOW center, our target of free pages - when all zones time to free.
Meaning we'll usually not have any clean pages around but
only free pages if your patch gets applied ;)
> HIGH limit were to stop the freeing.
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-23 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-22 23:46 Roger Larsson
2001-08-23 0:40 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-23 18:36 ` Roger Larsson
2001-08-23 18:44 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-23 18:52 ` Roger Larsson
2001-08-23 19:03 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-08-23 19:28 ` Upd: " Roger Larsson
2001-08-23 18:45 ` Roger Larsson
2001-08-23 18:55 ` Rik van Riel
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