[PATCH 0/5] mm improvements

Nick Piggin
2004-02-04T09:39:23Z

Patches against 2.6.2-rc3-mm1.
Please test / review / comment.

1/5: vm-no-rss-limit.patch
Remove broken RSS limiting. Simple problem, Rik is onto it.

2/5: vm-dont-rotate-active-list.patch
Nikita's patch to keep more page ordering info in the active list.
Also should improve system time due to less useless scanning
Helps swapping loads significantly.

3/5: vm-lru-info.patch
Keep more referenced info in the active list. Should also improve
system time in some cases. Helps swapping loads significantly.

4/5: vm-fix-shrink-zone.patch
Most significant part of this patch changes active / inactive
balancing. This improves non swapping kbuild by a few %. Helps
swapping significantly.

It also contains a number of other small fixes which have little
measurable impact on kbuild.

5/5: vm-tune-throttle.patch
Try to allocate a bit harder before giving up / throttling on
writeout.