Re: vm lock contention reduction

William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-05T23:11:13Z

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 07:18:34PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Of course, that change means that we wouldn't be able to throttle
> page allocators against IO any more, and we'd have to do something
> smarter. What a shame ;)

This is actually necessary IMHO. Some testing I've been able to do seems
to reveal the current throttling mechanism as inadequate.

Cheers,
Bill