From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id EA75D3B6BA for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:44:20 -0300 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:44:13 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [CFT][PATCH] smoother VM for -ac 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: Benjamin LaHaise Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox List-ID: 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 -- DMCA, SSSCA, W3C? Who cares? http://thefreeworld.net/ (volunteers needed) http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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-mm.org/