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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] add throttle to shrink_zone()
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On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:12:15 +0900 kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com wrote:

> add throttle to shrink_zone() for performance improvement and prevent incorrect oom.

We should have a description of how all this works, please.  I thought
that was present in earlier iterations of this patchset.

It's quite hard and quite unreliable to reverse engineer both the
design and your thinking from the implementation.