Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:11:49 -0300 (BRT)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>,
       Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Subject: Re: Andrea VM changes
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

>
> > that's true for only one patch, the others are pretty orthogonal after
> > Andrew helped splitting them:
> > 05_vm_03_vm_tunables-4
> > 05_vm_05_zone_accounting-2
> > 05_vm_06_swap_out-3
> > 05_vm_07_local_pages-4
> > 05_vm_08_try_to_free_pages_nozone-4
> > 05_vm_09_misc_junk-3
> > 05_vm_10_read_write_tweaks-3
> > 05_vm_13_activate_page_cleanup-1
> > 05_vm_15_active_page_swapout-1
> > 05_vm_16_active_free_zone_bhs-1
> > 05_vm_17_rest-10
> > 05_vm_18_buffer-page-uptodate-1
> > 05_vm_20_cleanups-3
> > 05_vm_21_rt-alloc-1
> > 05_vm_22_vm-anon-lru-1
> > 05_vm_23_per-cpu-pages-3
> > 05_vm_24_accessed-ipi-only-smp-1
> > 05_vm_25_try_to_free_buffers-invariant-1
>
> Indeed, you are right.
>
> I'll start looking at them Monday. I'll keep you in touch. Thanks.

Andrea,

Would you mind to explain me 05_vm_06_swap_out-3 ?

I see you change shrink_cache, try_to_free_pages_zone, etc.

Can you please give me a detailed explanation of the changes there?

I appreciate very much.

I'll keep looking at other patches for now.

Thanks
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