Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] beat kswapd with the proverbial clue-bat

Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-05T17:37:10Z

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On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 19:24, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, and the crowning argument for not stopping at order 3 is that if we
> > never use higher order allocations, nothing will care about their watermarks
> > anyway. I think I had myself confused when that question in the first place.
> >
> > So yeah, stopping at a fixed number isn't required, and as you say it keeps
> > things general and special cases minimal.
>
> Hey, please refute my "you need 20% free" to get even to order-3 for most
> cases first.
>
> It's probably acceptable to have a _very_ backgrounded job that does
> freeing if order-3 isn't available, but it had better be pretty
> slow-moving, I suspect. On the order of "It's probably ok to try to aim
> for up to 25% free 'overnight' if the machine is idle" but it's almost
> certainly not ok to aggressively push things out to that degree..

well... we have a reverse mapping now. What is stopping us from doing
physical defragmentation ?

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