From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265993AbUBEQSe (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:18:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266109AbUBEQSe (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:18:34 -0500 Received: from mail-03.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.35]:9614 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265993AbUBEQSc (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:18:32 -0500 Message-ID: <40226C49.4010307@cyberone.com.au> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 03:16:09 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Martin J. Bligh" CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat" References: <20040205014405.5a2cf529.akpm@osdl.org> <40222D4B.6050608@cyberone.com.au> <68430000.1075997516@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <68430000.1075997516@[10.10.2.4]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Martin J. Bligh wrote: >--Nick Piggin wrote (on Thursday, February 05, 2004 22:47:23 +1100): > > >>Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> >>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2/2.6.2-mm1/ >>> >>> >>>- Merged some page reclaim fixes from Nick and Nikita. These yield some >>> performance improvements in low memory and heavy paging situations. >>> >>> >>> >>Nikita's vm-dont-rotate-active-list.patch still has this: >> >>+/* dummy pages used to scan active lists */ >>+static struct page scan_pages[MAX_NUMNODES][MAX_NR_ZONES]; >>+ >> >>Which probably needs its nodes and cachelines untangled. >>Maybe it doesn't - I really don't know. >> > >The idle toad's way is to shove it in the pgdat. >Maybe even the zone structure? > > It logically belongs in the zone structure, but apparently dependancies will not allow that right now.