From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 632DF6B0071 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:07:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:06:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: vmscan: Do not run shrinkers for zones other than ZONE_NORMAL In-Reply-To: <20101022103620.53A9.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-ID: References: <20101022103620.53A9.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, npiggin@kernel.dk, Pekka Enberg , David Rientjes , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andi Kleen List-ID: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > I think this series has the same target with Nick's per-zone shrinker. > So, Do you dislike Nick's approach? can you please elaborate your intention? Sorry. I have not seen Nicks approach. The per zone approach seems to be at variance with how objects are tracked at the slab layer. There is no per zone accounting there. So attempts to do expiration of caches etc at that layer would not work right. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org