Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:24:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:24:18 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:44043 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:24:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:23:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Marcelo Tosatti cc: lkml , Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Inclusion of zoned inactive/free shortage patch In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Ok, I understand and I agree with doing _unconditional_ > "zone_inactive_plenty()" instead of conditional > "zone_inactive_shortage()". > > This way we do not get _strict_ zoned behaviour (with strict I mean only > doing scanning for zones which have a shortage), making the shortage > handling smoother and doing "fair" aging in cases where there are not > specific zones under pressure. Cool. Willing to write a patch and give it some preliminary testing? I also agree with the patch Rik sent in about GFP_HIGHUSER, that's orthogonal though (even if I suspect it could also have made the problem _appear_ much much more clearly). I'd like to do a real pre7 one of these days (it's already growing big enough, thank you), but I'd love to have this issue put at least somewhat to rest. Linus - 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/