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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:15:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [patch -mm 4/5] mm: test and set zone reclaim lock before starting
 reclaim
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Balbir Singh wrote:

> > One thing that has been changed in -mm with regard to my last patchset is 
> > that kswapd and try_to_free_pages() are allowed to call shrink_zone() 
> > concurrently.
> > 
> 
> Aah.. interesting. Could you define concurrently more precisely,
> concurrently as in the same zone or for different zones concurrently?

There was no change. They were allowed to call shrink_zone concurrently 
before.

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