Bug#695182: [RFC] Comments and questions

2013-02-08 Thread Johannes Weiner
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 02:43:00PM +1100, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: > The setting of highmem_is_dirtyable seems used only to calculate limits > and threshholds, not used in any decisions: seems odd. That's okay. We prefer placing page cache in highmem either way, this flag is just about whe

Bug#695182: [RFC] Comments and questions

2013-01-20 Thread paul . szabo
Many comments and questions: In __alloc_pages_slowpath(), did_some_progress is set twice but only checked after the second setting, so the first setting is wasted. [Setting of MAX_PAUSE reported previously.] The setting of highmem_is_dirtyable seems used only to calculate limits and threshholds,