Re: [BENCHMARKS] Namesys VM patches improve kbuild

Andrew Morton
2004-01-22T07:04:08Z

Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
>
> By the way, what
> do you think of this? Did I miss something non obvious?
>
> Seems to make little difference on the benchmarks. Without the patch,
> the active list would generally be attacked more aggressively.
>
>
>
> [vm-fix-shrink-zone.patch text/plain (2741 bytes)]
>
> Use the actual number of pages difference when trying to keep the inactive
> list 1/2 the size of the active list (1/3 the size of all pages) instead of
> a meaningless ratio.

Frankly, that `ratio' thing has always hurt my brain, so I left it as-is
from 2.4 because it never caused any obvious problems.

If we can put some clearer rationale behind what we're doing in there then
great.