From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
ncunningham@linuxmail.org, cef-lkml@optusnet.com.au,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rob@landley.net, seife@suse.de
Subject: Re: swappiness=0 makes software suspend fail.
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 20:42:00 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40BB0BF8.4040108@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040531030914.0e20d2e0.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
>
>>Right solution is to make sure that shrink_all_memory() works, no
>> matter how swappiness is set.
>
>
> off-by-one in balance_pgdat() was the main problem.
>
I think it might be intentional, because 1/2 + 1/4 + ... + 1/4096 ~ 1.
If so, it instead needs fixing in try_to_free_pages, and a comment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-31 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-28 5:00 swappiness=0 makes software suspend fail Rob Landley
2004-05-28 21:56 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-29 7:48 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-05-29 9:05 ` Stuart Young
2004-05-29 8:56 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-05-29 22:23 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-31 10:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-31 10:42 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-05-31 10:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-31 11:38 ` Rob Landley
2004-05-31 11:52 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-01 10:46 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-06-03 12:08 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-31 22:57 ` Flavio Stanchina
2004-06-04 12:20 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-31 11:50 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-31 19:07 ` Stefan Seyfried
2004-05-29 22:36 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-30 2:21 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-30 19:47 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-30 23:23 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-05-31 3:28 ` Rob Landley
2004-05-31 6:18 ` Stuart Young
2004-05-31 8:41 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-29 11:35 ` Pavel Machek
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