From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:49:12 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC 0/8] Use ZVCs for accurate writeback ratio determination In-Reply-To: <45B9F26D.5090107@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <20070126054153.10564.43218.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <45B9F26D.5090107@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, Nikita Danilov , Andi Kleen List-ID: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > So you no longer account for reclaimable slab allocations, which > would be a significant change on some workloads. Any reason for > that? We could add NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE if that is a factor. However, these pages cannot be dirtied. They may be reclaimed yes and then pages may become available again. However, that is a difficult process without slab defrag. Are you sure that these are significant? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org