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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [CFT][PATCH] smoother VM for -ac
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:44:13 -0300 (BRST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0110101842590.26495-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0110101815140.26495-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

> > There's a small problem with this one: I know that during
> > testing of earlier 2.4 kernels we saw a livelock which was
> > caused by the vm subsystem spinning without scheduling.

I added back the reschedule at the zone->pages_min() limit
and have documented this piece of black magic. New patch
can be found at:

	http://www.surriel.com/patches/

regards,

Rik
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-10 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-10 20:25 Rik van Riel
2001-10-10 20:48 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-10-10 21:25   ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-10 21:44     ` Rik van Riel [this message]
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0110101710150.26495-100000@duckman.distro.c onectiva>
2001-10-11  8:46 ` Lorenzo Allegrucci
2001-10-12  4:41 Re[02]: " Robert Love
2001-10-12  5:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
     [not found]   ` <3BC64882.27834.2D200B0@localhost>
2001-10-12  5:54     ` Andrea Arcangeli

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