Re: [PATCH] kswapd shall not sleep during page shortage

Andrew Morton
2004-11-10T02:56:40Z

Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
>
> Shall we crank up min_free_kbytes a bit?

May as well. or we could do something fancy in register_netdevice().

> We could also compress the watermarks, while increasing pages_min? That
> will increase the GFP_ATOMIC buffer as well, without having free memory
> run away on us (eg pages_min = 2*x, pages_low = 5*x/2, pages_high = 3*x)?

There are also hidden intermediate levels for rt-policy tasks.