Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 01:40:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 01:40:09 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-021-198.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.21.198]:39046 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 01:40:08 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-zone kswapd process Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:44:30 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Dave Hansen , "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org References: <3D815C8C.4050000@us.ibm.com> <3D81643C.4C4E862C@digeo.com> <20020913045938.GG2179@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20020913045938.GG2179@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 719 Lines: 19 On Friday 13 September 2002 06:59, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:06:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I still don't see why it's per zone and not per node. It seems strange > > that a wee little laptop would be running two kswapds? > > kswapd can get a ton of work done in the development VM and one per > > node would, I expect, suffice? > > Machines without observable NUMA effects can benefit from it if it's > per-zone. How? -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/