Hi, The following patch changes two things: - Counts asynchronous ll_rw_block() IO in the flushed pages counter (page_launder) - Limits the amount of scanned pte's _by user tasks_ inside swap_out() diff --exclude-from=/home/marcelo/exclude -Nur linux.orig/fs/buffer.c linux/fs/buffer.c --- linux.orig/fs/buffer.c Thu Mar 1 19:21:02 2001 +++ linux/fs/buffer.c Thu Mar 1 19:33:38 2001 @@ -1399,7 +1399,8 @@ * instead. */ if (!offset) { - if (!try_to_free_buffers(page, 0)) { + try_to_free_buffers(page, 0); + if (page->buffers) { atomic_inc(&buffermem_pages); return 0; } @@ -2413,7 +2414,7 @@ spin_unlock(&free_list[index].lock); write_unlock(&hash_table_lock); spin_unlock(&lru_list_lock); - return 1; + return 0; busy_buffer_page: /* Uhhuh, start writeback so that we don't end up with all dirty pages */ @@ -2428,6 +2429,7 @@ goto cleaned_buffers_try_again; } wakeup_bdflush(0); + return 1; } return 0; } diff --exclude-from=/home/marcelo/exclude -Nur linux.orig/mm/vmscan.c linux/mm/vmscan.c --- linux.orig/mm/vmscan.c Thu Mar 1 19:21:08 2001 +++ linux/mm/vmscan.c Thu Mar 1 19:35:51 2001 @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ return nr < SWAP_MIN ? SWAP_MIN : nr; } -static int swap_out(unsigned int priority, int gfp_mask) +static int swap_out(unsigned int priority, int gfp_mask, int user) { int counter; int retval = 0; @@ -280,7 +280,12 @@ retval = swap_out_mm(mm, swap_amount(mm)); /* Then, look at the other mm's */ - counter = (mmlist_nr << SWAP_SHIFT) >> priority; + + if (user) + counter = (mmlist_nr) >> priority; + else + counter = (mmlist_nr << SWAP_SHIFT) >> priority; + do { struct list_head *p; @@ -535,7 +540,7 @@ * buffer pages */ if (page->buffers) { - int wait, clearedbuf; + int wait; /* * Since we might be doing disk IO, we have to * drop the spinlock and take an extra reference @@ -554,7 +559,8 @@ wait = 0; /* No IO */ /* Try to free the page buffers. */ - clearedbuf = try_to_free_buffers(page, wait); + if (try_to_free_buffers(page, wait)) + flushed_pages++; /* * Re-take the spinlock. Note that we cannot @@ -564,10 +570,8 @@ spin_lock(&pagemap_lru_lock); /* The buffers were not freed. */ - if (!clearedbuf) { + if (page->buffers) { add_page_to_inactive_dirty_list(page); - if (wait) - flushed_pages++; /* The page was only in the buffer cache. */ } else if (!page->mapping) { @@ -876,7 +880,7 @@ goto done; /* If refill_inactive_scan failed, try to page stuff out.. */ - swap_out(DEF_PRIORITY, gfp_mask); + swap_out(DEF_PRIORITY, gfp_mask, user); if (--maxtry <= 0) return 0; - 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/