On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > We always run reclaim against the whole zone not against parts. Why > > would we start running reclaim against a portion of a zone? > > Oh for gawd's sake.
Yes indeed. Another failure to answer a simple question. > If you want to allocate a page from within the first 1/4 of a zone, and if > all those pages are in use for something else then you'll need to run > reclaim against the first 1/4 of that zone. Or fail the allocation. Or > run reclaim against the entire zone. The second two options are > self-evidently dumb. Why would one want to allocate from the 1/4th of a zone? (Are we still discussing Mel's antifrag scheme or what is this about?) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
