Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269321AbUJKW5l (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:57:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269320AbUJKW5l (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:57:41 -0400 Received: from smtp204.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.127]:32184 "HELO smtp204.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269321AbUJKW5j (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:57:39 -0400 Message-ID: <416B0FD7.2000006@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:57:27 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Debian/1.7.2-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc4-mm1 References: <20041011032502.299dc88d.akpm@osdl.org> <416A70AA.3040608@yahoo.com.au> <20041011121331.58bd9c0a.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20041011121331.58bd9c0a.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 713 Lines: 28 Andrew Morton wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > >>>+no-wild-kswapd-2.patch >> >>Is this an improvement? > > > Seems to be a wash in my testing. > > >>It again decouples the "priority" semantics of >>the direct and asynch reclaim paths. > > > What's that mean? > Before those patches, priority means what fraction of the lists have to be scanned to free 32 pages. Afterwards, it means something significantly different for balance_pgdat. - 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/