From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754598AbWKHRVO (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:21:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753271AbWKHRVO (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:21:14 -0500 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:55732 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754598AbWKHRVN (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:21:13 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 09:21:06 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: clameter@sgi.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Avoid allocating during interleave from almost full nodes Message-Id: <20061108092106.1d3a2971.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1163005750.14238.19.camel@twins> References: <20061103134633.a815c7b3.akpm@osdl.org> <20061103143145.85a9c63f.akpm@osdl.org> <20061103172605.e646352a.pj@sgi.com> <20061103174206.53f2c49e.akpm@osdl.org> <20061104025128.ca3c9859.pj@sgi.com> <20061108022136.3b9b0748.pj@sgi.com> <1162999085.14238.17.camel@twins> <20061108090644.f23d37de.pj@sgi.com> <1163005750.14238.19.camel@twins> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter wrote: > I was just hoping we could come up with 1 vm-time Eh - why? At least for secondary uses such as this, marking little node local caches stale, so we are forced to refresh them occassionally, I'd almost as soon avoid beating with other activity, and keeping the affect rather like background white noise. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401