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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: riel@conectiva.com.br
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com,
	zaitcev@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The IBM order relaxation patch
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 04:29:03 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020207.042903.71864726.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0202071015470.17850-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020206.200100.85392985.davem@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0202071015470.17850-100000@imladris.surriel.com>

   From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
   Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:16:22 -0200 (BRST)

   The only problem is that it doesn't.  It won't try to free
   pages once you have enough free pages, which means you'll
   just end up in a livelock.

It always calls balance_classzone which always calls try_to_free_pages
which always will try to free SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages.

Oh, I see, is it that the old and RMAP VM won't do that? :-)

BTW, in checking this out it seems current->allocation_order is only
set and never checked anywhere.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-07 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-06 21:50 The IBM order relaxation patch Ulrich Weigand
2002-02-07  0:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-07  4:01   ` David S. Miller
2002-02-07 12:16     ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-07 12:29       ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-02-07 12:42         ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-07 12:58         ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-07 14:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-07 14:55   ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-07 15:07     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-07 15:10       ` David S. Miller
2002-02-09 20:21   ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-07 15:05 Ulrich Weigand
2002-02-07 15:13 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-07 17:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-06 19:13 Pete Zaitcev

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