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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@norran.net>,
	MM mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the new VM
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:50:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000925165030.R22882@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009251115150.2518-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>; from marcelo@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:26:48AM -0300

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:26:48AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> This thread keeps freeing pages from the inactive clean list when needed
> (when zone->free_pages < zone->pages_low), making them available for
> atomic allocations.

This is flawed. It's the irq that have to shrink the memory itself. It can't
certainly reschedule kreclaimd and wait it to do the work.

Increasing the free_pages_min limit is the _only_ alternative to having
irqs that are able to shrink clean cache (and hopefully that "feature"
will be resurrected soon since it's the only way to go right now). 

Andrea
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Thread overview: 243+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-09-24 10:11 __GFP_IO && shrink_[d|i]cache_memory()? Ingo Molnar
2000-09-24 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-09-24 18:40   ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-24 18:39     ` Linus Torvalds
2000-09-24 18:46       ` Linus Torvalds
2000-09-24 18:59         ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-24 19:34         ` [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 Ingo Molnar
2000-09-24 20:20           ` Rui Sousa
2000-09-24 20:24           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-24 20:26             ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-24 21:12               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-24 21:12                 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-24 21:43                   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-24 22:13                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-24 22:36                       ` [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 - fixing deadlocks bert hubert
2000-09-24 23:41                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 16:24                           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-25 17:03                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 18:06                               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-25 19:32                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 19:26                                   ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-25 22:28                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 22:26                                       ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-25 22:51                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 22:30                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2000-09-25 23:03                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 23:18                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2000-09-26  0:32                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 22:30                                       ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-09-25 23:00                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 19:54                                   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-25 22:44                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 22:42                                       ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-26  6:54                                     ` Christoph Rohland
2000-09-26 14:05                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-26 16:20                                         ` Christoph Rohland
2000-09-26 17:10                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-27  8:11                                             ` Christoph Rohland
2000-09-27  8:28                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-27  9:24                                                 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-09-27 13:56                                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-27 16:56                                                 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-09-27 17:42                                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-27 18:25                                                     ` Erik Andersen
2000-09-27 18:55                                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-28 10:08                                                 ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-28 11:16                                                   ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-28 14:52                                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-29 14:39                                                       ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-29 14:55                                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-29 15:40                                                           ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-28 11:31                                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-28 14:54                                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-28 15:13                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-28 15:23                                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-28 16:16                                                         ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-09-28 14:31                                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 17:21                           ` bert hubert
2000-09-25 17:49                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 15:09                         ` Miles Lane
2000-09-25 15:51                         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-25 16:05                           ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 16:06                             ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-25 16:20                               ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 16:29                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25  4:56                   ` [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 Linus Torvalds
2000-09-25  5:19                     ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-25  6:06                       ` Linus Torvalds
2000-09-25  6:17                         ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-25 21:21                         ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-26 13:42                       ` [CFT][PATCH] ext2 directories in pagecache Alexander Viro
2000-09-26 21:29                       ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-26 22:16                         ` Marko Kreen
2000-09-26 22:31                           ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-26 22:47                             ` Marko Kreen
2000-09-27  7:32                               ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-27  9:22                                 ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-26 23:19                         ` Andreas Dilger
2000-09-26 23:33                           ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-26 23:44                             ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-25  0:09                 ` [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 Linus Torvalds
2000-09-25  0:49                   ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-25  0:53                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-09-25  1:45                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25  2:39                       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-09-25 15:36                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 10:42                     ` the new VM Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 13:02                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 13:02                         ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 13:08                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 13:12                             ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 13:30                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 13:39                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 14:04                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 14:04                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 14:23                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 14:27                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 14:39                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 14:43                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 15:01                                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 15:10                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 15:24                                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 15:26                                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 15:22                                                       ` yodaiken
2000-09-26 19:10                                                 ` Pavel Machek
2000-09-26 20:16                                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-27  7:42                                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-27 12:11                                                     ` yodaiken
2000-09-27 14:08                                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 16:09                                             ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-25 14:26                                     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-09-25 14:50                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2000-09-25 14:47                               ` Alan Cox
2000-09-25 15:16                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 15:16                                   ` the new VMt Alan Cox
2000-09-25 15:33                                     ` the new VM Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 15:41                                     ` the new VMt Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 16:02                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 16:04                                         ` Andi Kleen
2000-09-25 16:19                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 16:18                                             ` Andi Kleen
2000-09-25 16:41                                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 16:35                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-09-25 16:41                                                   ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-25 16:49                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2000-09-25 17:03                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 17:17                                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 17:10                                                           ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-25 17:27                                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 17:15                                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-27  7:14                                                   ` Rusty Russell
2000-09-25 20:23                                               ` Russell King
2000-09-25 16:28                                             ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-25 16:11                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 16:22                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 16:17                                             ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-25 16:36                                               ` Jeff Garzik
2000-09-25 16:57                                               ` Alan Cox
2000-09-25 17:01                                                 ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-25 17:06                                                   ` Alan Cox
2000-09-25 17:31                                                     ` Oliver Xymoron
2000-09-25 17:51                                                       ` Jeff Garzik
2000-09-25 19:03                                                     ` the new VMt [4MB+ blocks] Matti Aarnio
2000-09-25 20:02                                                       ` Stephen Williams
2000-09-25 16:33                                             ` the new VMt Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-26  8:38                                             ` Jes Sorensen
2000-09-26  8:52                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-26  9:02                                                 ` Jes Sorensen
2000-09-25 16:53                                         ` Alan Cox
2000-09-25 15:42                                     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-25 16:05                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 16:22                                         ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-25 16:42                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 17:39                                         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-25 16:51                                       ` Alan Cox
2000-09-25 17:43                                         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-25 18:13                                           ` Alan Cox
2000-09-25 18:21                                             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-25 19:09                                               ` Alan Cox
2000-09-25 19:21                                                 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-25 16:52                                       ` yodaiken
2000-09-25 17:18                                         ` Jamie Lokier
2000-09-25 17:51                                           ` yodaiken
2000-09-25 18:04                                             ` Jamie Lokier
2000-09-25 18:13                                               ` yodaiken
2000-09-25 18:24                                                 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-25 18:34                                                   ` yodaiken
2000-09-25 18:48                                                     ` Jamie Lokier
2000-09-25 19:25                                                     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-25 20:04                                                       ` yodaiken
2000-09-25 20:23                                                         ` Alan Cox
2000-09-25 20:35                                                           ` yodaiken
2000-09-25 20:46                                                             ` Alan Cox
2000-09-25 21:07                                                               ` yodaiken
2000-09-26  9:54                                                                 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-26 13:17                                                                   ` yodaiken
2000-09-25 20:47                                                             ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
2000-09-25 21:12                                                               ` yodaiken
2000-09-26 10:07                                                                 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-26 13:30                                                                   ` yodaiken
2000-09-25 20:32                                                         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-26 12:10                                                           ` Mark Hemment
2000-09-27 10:13                                                             ` Andrey Savochkin
2000-09-27 12:55                                                               ` Hugh Dickins
2000-09-28  3:25                                                                 ` Andrey Savochkin
2000-09-25 23:14                                                         ` Erik Andersen
2000-09-26 15:17                                                           ` yodaiken
2000-09-26 16:04                                                             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-26 17:02                                                               ` Erik Andersen
2000-09-26 17:08                                                                 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-26 17:45                                                                   ` Erik Andersen
2000-09-27 10:20                                                                     ` Andrey Savochkin
2000-09-26 21:13                                                                   ` Eric Lowe
2000-09-25 18:20                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 16:16                                     ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-25 16:55                                       ` Alan Cox
2000-09-25 15:48                                   ` the new VM Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 15:40                                 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-25 16:01                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 14:37                             ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-25 20:34                               ` Christoph Rohland
2000-10-06 16:14                                 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09  7:37                                   ` Christoph Rohland
2000-09-25 13:04                         ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 13:19                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 13:18                             ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 13:21                             ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 13:31                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 13:47                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 14:04                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25  1:31                   ` [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25  1:27                     ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-25  2:02                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25  2:01                         ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-25 13:47                         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-25 10:13                     ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 12:58                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 13:10                         ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 13:49                           ` Jens Axboe
2000-09-25 14:11                             ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 14:05                               ` Jens Axboe
2000-09-25 16:46                               ` Linus Torvalds
2000-09-25 17:05                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 17:23                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 14:20                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 14:11                               ` Jens Axboe
2000-09-25 14:33                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 13:56                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 13:57                             ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 14:13                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 14:08                                 ` Jens Axboe
2000-09-25 14:29                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 14:18                                     ` Jens Axboe
2000-09-25 14:47                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 21:28                                         ` Jens Axboe
2000-09-25 22:14                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 14:13                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 14:29                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 14:46                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25 14:53                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 15:02                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-24 21:38     ` __GFP_IO && shrink_[d|i]cache_memory()? Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-24 23:20       ` Alan Cox

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