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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:44:13 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
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        <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [CFT][PATCH] smoother VM for -ac
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

> > There's a small problem with this one: I know that during
> > testing of earlier 2.4 kernels we saw a livelock which was
> > caused by the vm subsystem spinning without scheduling.

I added back the reschedule at the zone->pages_min() limit
and have documented this piece of black magic. New patch
can be found at:

	http://www.surriel.com/patches/

regards,

Rik
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