Re: [RFC] Additional features for zone reclaim

Nick Piggin
2006-01-18T03:57:51Z

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> This patch adds the ability to shrink the cache if a zone runs out of
> memory or to start swapping out pages on a node. The slab shrink
> has some issues since it is global and not related to the zone.
> One could add support for zone specifications to the shrinker to
> make that work. Got a patch halfway done that would modify all
> shrinkers to take an additional zone parameters. But is that worth it?
>

I have a patch somewhere that does that. Never worked out if it
was worth it or not.

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