From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:55:31 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: nonblocking-vm.patch In-Reply-To: <3D766999.A9C14E1E@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: "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > > get cleaned. We can do this by simply refusing to > > scan that zone again for a number of jiffies, say > > 1/4 of a second. > > Well, it may be better to terminate that sleep earlier if IO > completes. But only if enough IO completes. Otherwise we'll just end up doing too much scanning for no gain again. 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/