Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750795AbVI1UBt (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:01:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750801AbVI1UBt (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:01:49 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:33680 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750795AbVI1UBs (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:01:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:01:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: "Seth, Rohit" cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Mattia Dongili , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] Reset the high water marks in CPUs pcp list In-Reply-To: <20050928105009.B29282@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <20050928105009.B29282@unix-os.sc.intel.com> 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 Content-Length: 662 Lines: 13 On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Seth, Rohit wrote: > Recent changes in page allocations for pcps has increased the high watermark for these lists. This has resulted in scenarios where pcp lists could be having bigger number of free pages even under low memory conditions. > > [PATCH]: Reduce the high mark in cpu's pcp lists. There is no need for such a patch. The pcp lists are regularly flushed. See drain_remote_pages. - 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/