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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] start_aggressive_readahead
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:44:10 -0300 (BRT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0207251343180.8815-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020725181059.A25857@lst.de>

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> This function (start_aggressive_readahead()) checks whether all zones
> of the given gfp mask have lots of free pages.

Seems a bit silly since ideally we wouldn't reclaim cache memory
until we're low on physical memory.


regards,

Rik
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-25 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-25 16:10 Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-25 16:44 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2002-07-25 19:40   ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-26 16:50     ` Scott Kaplan
2002-07-26 19:38       ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-28 23:32         ` Scott Kaplan
2002-07-29  0:19           ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-29  2:12             ` Scott Kaplan
2002-07-29  3:05               ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-29 15:24                 ` Scott Kaplan
2002-07-29  7:34           ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-29  7:37             ` Vladimir Dergachev
2002-07-29  7:53               ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-29  8:04             ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-30 16:11             ` Scott Kaplan
2002-07-30 16:21               ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-30 16:38                 ` Scott Kaplan
2002-07-30 16:52                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-05 18:54                     ` Scott Kaplan
2002-07-30 17:13                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-26 20:14     ` Stephen Lord
2002-07-26 20:29       ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-26  6:53 ` Daniel Phillips

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