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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:37:35 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Inclusion of zoned inactive/free shortage patch 
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> Even if I did not had the stats, its senseless to free/deactivate pages
> from zones which do not need to.
>
> The old behaviour was fundamentally broken.

Both behaviours are fundamentally broken. On the one hand
we WILL want to deactivate the least used pages so for
GFP_HIGHUSER allocations we know which zone to allocate
from.

On the other hand we want to avoid work in the pageout
code when it isn't needed.

regards,

Rik
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