Re: [RFC] Additional features for zone reclaim

Christoph Lameter
2006-01-18T06:38:03Z

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:

> 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.

Could you sent it to me? Maybe it can save me some work.