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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: aa VM updates merged was: Linux 2.4.23-pre4
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:44:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030912214429.GE30584@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309121528290.3893-100000@logos.cnet>

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:48:50PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> And finally merge most important part of -aa VM. Those changes are fixing
> some OOM deadlocks, give us better per-zone balancing and better
> reclaiming. The OOM killer has been removed.
> 
> I've been using it on my 256MB desktop: performance feels much better, but 
> it needs extensive testing, so please help.

...

> <marcelo:logos.cnet>:
>   o aa VM merge: Per-zone watermark changes, add lower_zone_reserve_ratio
>   o aa VM merge: page reclaiming logic changes: Kills oom killer
>   o aa VM merge: Page accounting helpers changes
>   o aa VM merge: tunables
>   o aa VM merge: Kill PF_MEMDIE
>   o aa VM merge: Fixup page reclaiming changes patch

Great.  I will be going back to 2.4 to help test this for you.

Now we await the flamewar about removing the OOM killer... :-/

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-12 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-12 19:48 Linux 2.4.23-pre4 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-12 21:44 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-09-13 12:44 ` Linux 2.4.23-pre4: failed at atyfb_base.c Eyal Lebedinsky
2003-09-13 14:39   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-13 17:52     ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-14  8:44       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-13 19:16     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-15 21:04     ` Olaf Hering
2003-09-15 21:19       ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-15 21:28         ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-15 21:34         ` Olaf Hering
2003-09-15 21:44           ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-13 21:39 ` Linux 2.4.23-pre4 Willy Tarreau
2003-09-14 11:34 ` Linux 2.4.23-pre4 => NFSD problem on alpha Willy Tarreau
2003-09-14 11:48   ` Neil Brown
2003-09-14 12:15     ` Willy Tarreau
2003-09-14 16:55       ` Chris Kloiber
2003-09-14 21:28         ` Willy Tarreau

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