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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.3-mm3
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:08:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <403D7159.6060101@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <403D6816.1020000@cyberone.com.au>

Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> 
> Mike Fedyk wrote:
> 
>>
>> So, you think vm-shrink-slab-lowmem.patch shrinks slab too much, or 
>> Andrew's patch (IIRC, those comments were for Andrew's patch...)?
>>
> 
> Mine does.
> 

Won't Andrew's patch scan/shrink the slab more if there is more highmem 
than lowmem?

>>
>> Hmm, do you think I'd get more slab shrinking with 2.6.3 + 
>> zone-balancing-fix.patch?
>>
> 
> 
> Not really because you shouldn't be hitting the direct reclaim
> path. shrink_slab-for-all-zones.patch will help more though.

Sorry, I meant "shrink slab more than 2.6.3 with 2.6.3 + 
zone-balancing-fix.patch".

Since the zones are more balanced, there should be more lowmem scanning 
going on...

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-26  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-23  1:22 2.6.3-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-02-23  1:43 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-23  1:55   ` 2.6.3-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-02-23  2:02     ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-23  2:51     ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-23  3:04       ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-23  8:08         ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-23  8:48           ` [PATCH] vm-fix-all_zones_ok (was Re: 2.6.3-mm3) Nick Piggin
2004-02-23  8:59             ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23  9:21               ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-23  9:24                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 16:23                 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-23 22:47               ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-24  4:11                 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-24  9:12                   ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-24  9:22                     ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-24  9:30                       ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-24  9:37                         ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-24 20:55                       ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-24 22:36                         ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-24 22:41                           ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-23  2:19 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-23  2:52 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Joshua Kwan
2004-02-23  3:34 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Joshua Kwan
2004-02-23 18:09 ` [patch] 2.6.3-mm3: ALSA miXart driver doesn't compile Adrian Bunk
2004-02-23 18:58 ` 2.6.3-mm3 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-02-23 20:00   ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-02-24 22:22 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-24 22:30   ` 2.6.3-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 21:27     ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-26  1:06       ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-26  1:18         ` 2.6.3-mm3 Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-02-26  1:28           ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-26  1:32         ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-26  1:52           ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-26  2:34             ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-26  2:40               ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-26  2:48                 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-26  3:05                   ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-26  3:19                     ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-26  3:29                       ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-26  4:08                         ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2004-02-26  4:56             ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-27 19:02               ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-27 21:57                 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-25  0:26 ` 2.6.3-mm3 hangs on boot x440 (scsi?) john stultz
2004-02-25  1:06   ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25  1:22     ` john stultz
2004-02-25  1:27       ` john stultz
2004-02-25  1:48       ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:15         ` john stultz
2004-02-26 14:40     ` Go Taniguchi
2004-02-26 21:26       ` john stultz
2004-02-26 23:02         ` john stultz
2004-02-26 23:15           ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-27  0:14             ` john stultz
2004-02-27  0:58               ` john stultz
2004-02-27  2:25             ` john stultz
2004-02-25  1:15 ` [PATCH 2.6.3-mm3] serialize_writeback_fdatawait patch Daniel McNeil
2004-02-25  1:43   ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:56     ` Daniel McNeil
2004-02-25  2:51 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-25  3:09   ` 2.6.3-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-02-25  3:34     ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-25 10:47 ` 2.6.3-mm3 sometimes freeze on "sync" Helge Hafting
2004-02-25  9:39   ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-26  8:49     ` Helge Hafting
2004-02-27 14:49       ` Alexander Hoogerhuis
2004-02-27 23:34 ` 2.6.3-mm3 john stultz
2004-02-28  0:06   ` 2.6.3-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-02-28  2:48     ` 2.6.3-mm3 (ioremap failure w/ _X86_4G and _NUMA) john stultz
2004-02-28  3:18       ` Dave Hansen
2004-02-28  4:34       ` Martin J. Bligh

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