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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mmotm-2010-01-06-14-34] check high watermark after shrink zone
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:25:49 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100110142549.GA14610@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100108141235.ef56b567.minchan.kim@barrios-desktop>

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 02:12:35PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Kswapd check that zone have enough free by zone_water_mark.
> If any zone doesn't have enough page, it set all_zones_ok to zero.

> all_zone_ok makes kswapd retry not sleeping.

!all_zone_ok :)

> I think the watermark check before shrink zone is pointless.
> Kswapd try to shrink zone then the check is meaningul.
> 
> This patch move the check after shrink zone.

This tends to make kswapd do less work in one invocation, with lower
priority.  Looks at least not bad to me :) Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-10 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-08  5:12 [PATCH -mmotm-2010-01-06-14-34] check high watermark after shrink zone Minchan Kim
2010-01-08  5:30 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-10 14:25 ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2010-01-12 23:01 ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-12 23:40   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-13  1:51   ` Minchan Kim

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