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From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@gmail.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: shrink_all_memory tweaks (was: Re: Userland swsusp failure (mm-related))
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:01:29 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604140001.30287.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604131554.31613.rjw@sisk.pl>

On Thursday 13 April 2006 23:54, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday 13 April 2006 14:42, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > This is not quite right at maintaining the original semantics I was
> > proposing. Since you are iterating over all priorities, setting may_swap
> > means you will reclaim mapped ram on the earlier passes once priority
> > gets low enough.
>
> No, I won't, because I don't update zone->prev_priority which is necessary
> to trigger this.  Unless of course zone->prev_priority is already low
> enough ...

Ah yes of course, that explains why I didn't need to either :P

> > Setting vm_swappiness temporarily to 100 is unncecessary. You should set
> > may_swap to 0 and set it to 1 on passes 3+.
>
> ... which can be dealt with by setting may_swap like you're saying.
>
> I'll make this change and repost as an RFC in a separate thread.

Great

-- 
-ck

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-13 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <b637ec0b0604080537s55e63544r8bb63c887e81ecaf@mail.gmail.com>
2006-04-08 15:16 ` Userland swsusp failure (mm-related) Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-08 16:15   ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-08 22:47     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-08 23:24       ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-09 20:36         ` shrink_all_memory tweaks (was: Re: Userland swsusp failure (mm-related)) Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-09 23:23           ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-11 17:06             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-13 12:42               ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-13 13:54                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-13 14:01                   ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2006-04-09  1:51       ` Userland swsusp failure (mm-related) Nick Piggin
2006-04-11 21:33         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-11 21:36           ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-11 22:10             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-12  5:29               ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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