From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:26:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 07 of 24] balance_pgdat doesn't return the number of pages freed In-Reply-To: <20070912051858.76a69996.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20070912051858.76a69996.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , linux-mm@kvack.org, David Rientjes List-ID: On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > I'll skip this due to its dependency on > [PATCH 06 of 24] reduce the probability of an OOM livelock The return value of balance_pgdat() is never used independently of the prior patch. The only user of balance_pgdat() is kswapd(): finish_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait); if (!try_to_freeze()) { /* We can speed up thawing tasks if we don't call * balance_pgdat after returning from the refrigerator */ balance_pgdat(pgdat, order); } } -- 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