From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 30 May 2001 15:19:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 30 May 2001 15:19:17 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:30242 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 30 May 2001 15:19:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 21:18:01 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Yoann Vandoorselaere Cc: Rik van Riel , andrea@e-mind.com, Mark Hemment , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [patch] 4GB I/O, cut three Message-ID: <20010530211801.A27129@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <87r8x6k6kx.fsf@mandrakesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r8x6k6kx.fsf@mandrakesoft.com>; from yoann@mandrakesoft.com on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:57:50PM +0200 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:57:50PM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > I remember the 2.3.51 kernel as the most usable kernel I ever used > talking about VM. I also don't remeber anything strange in that kernel about the VM (I instead remeber well the VM breakage introduced in 2.3.99-pre). Regardless of what 2.3.51 was doing, the falling back into the lower zones before starting the balancing is fine. Andrea