Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750914AbVLBH1h (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 02:27:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751756AbVLBH1h (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 02:27:37 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:62343 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751751AbVLBH1g (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 02:27:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 23:27:05 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Wu Fengguang Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, christoph@lameter.com, riel@redhat.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, npiggin@suse.de, andrea@suse.de, magnus.damm@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] mm: supporting variables and functions for balanced zone aging Message-Id: <20051201232705.0721181e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20051202071849.GA4073@mail.ustc.edu.cn> References: <20051201101810.837245000@localhost.localdomain> <20051201101933.936973000@localhost.localdomain> <20051201023714.612f0bbf.akpm@osdl.org> <20051201222846.GA3646@dmt.cnet> <20051201150349.3538638e.akpm@osdl.org> <20051202011924.GA3516@mail.ustc.edu.cn> <20051201214931.2dbc35fe.akpm@osdl.org> <20051202071849.GA4073@mail.ustc.edu.cn> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 560 Lines: 12 Wu Fengguang wrote: > > First we run into a large range of pinned chunks, which lowered the scan > priority. And then there are plenty of reclaimable chunks, bomb... It doesn't have to be that complex - the unreclaimable pages could be referenced, or under writeback or even simply dirty. - 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/