Re: [patch 18/67] zone_reclaim: dynamic slab reclaim

Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-12T07:31:26Z

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 14:04 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> plain text document attachment
> (zone_reclaim-dynamic-slab-reclaim.patch)
> -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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> From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=0ff38490c836dc379ff7ec45b10a15a662f4e5f6
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> Currently one can enable slab reclaim by setting an explicit option in
> /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode. Slab reclaim is then used as a final
> option if the freeing of unmapped file backed pages is not enough to free
> enough pages to allow a local allocation.

this one adds a feature rather than a bugfix........