Re: [PATCH] vmscan: skip freeing memory from zones with lots free

Andrew Morton
2008-11-29T18:51:20Z

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:41:34 -0500 Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:58:32 -0500 Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> Will this new patch reintroduce the problem which
> >>> 26e4931632352e3c95a61edac22d12ebb72038fe fixed?
>
> No, that problem is already taken care of by the fact that
> active pages always get deactivated in the current VM,
> regardless of whether or not they were referenced.

err, sorry, that was the wrong commit.
26e4931632352e3c95a61edac22d12ebb72038fe _introduced_ the problem, as
predicted in the changelog.

265b2b8cac1774f5f30c88e0ab8d0bcf794ef7b3 later fixed it up.