Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267880AbUJHBtA (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:49:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269824AbUJHBqx (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:46:53 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:8419 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267880AbUJHBln (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:41:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:41:34 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Andrew Morton Cc: Nick Piggin , chrisw@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, piggin@cyberone.com.au Subject: Re: kswapd in tight loop 2.6.9-rc3-bk-recent Message-ID: <20041007184134.S2357@build.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20041007142019.D2441@build.pdx.osdl.net> <20041007164044.23bac609.akpm@osdl.org> <4165E0A7.7080305@yahoo.com.au> <20041007174242.3dd6facd.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20041007174242.3dd6facd.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:42:42PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 924 Lines: 24 * Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org) wrote: > > OK, after backing out the `goto spaghetti;' patch and cleaning up a few > thing I'll test the below. It'll make kswapd much less aggressive. testing with this compile fix: diff -u 25-akpm/mm/vmscan.c edited/mm/vmscan.c --- 25-akpm/mm/vmscan.c 2004-10-07 17:38:20.348905464 -0700 +++ edited/mm/vmscan.c 2004-10-07 18:38:14 -07:00 @@ -999,7 +999,7 @@ struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i; zone->temp_priority = DEF_PRIORITY; - zone->pages_to_reclaim = zone->pages_high - zone->pages_free; + zone->pages_to_reclaim = zone->pages_high - zone->free_pages; } for (priority = DEF_PRIORITY; priority >= 0; priority--) { - 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/