> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:38:13 -0400 Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >
(What happened to the other stuff I said?) > > I guess for a very small upper zone and a very large lower zone this could > > still put the scan balancing out of whack, fixable by a smarter version of > > "8*zone->pages_high" but it doesn't seem very likely that this will affect > > things much. > > > > Why doesn't direct reclaim need similar treatment? > > Because we only go into the direct reclaim path once > every zone is at or below zone->pages_low, and the > direct reclaim path will exit once we have freed more > than swap_cluster_max pages. > hm. Now I need to remember why direct-reclaim does that :( - 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/
