From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 23:16:44 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: vm lock contention reduction In-Reply-To: <3D2501FA.4B14EB14@zip.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Linus Torvalds List-ID: On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > Of course, that change means that we wouldn't be able to throttle > page allocators against IO any more, and we'd have to do something > smarter. What a shame ;) We want something smarter anyway. It just doesn't make sense to throttle on one page in one memory zone while the pages in another zone could have already become freeable by now. regards, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". 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/