Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937062AbWLDSP5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 13:15:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937068AbWLDSP5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 13:15:57 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:42122 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937062AbWLDSP4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 13:15:56 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:15:21 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: Andrew Morton cc: "Horst H. von Brand" , Aucoin@houston.rr.com, "'Kyle Moffett'" , "'Tim Schmielau'" , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dcn@sgi.com Subject: Re: la la la la ... swappiness In-Reply-To: <20061204100656.793d8d6a.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <200612041439.kB4EdGFn025092@ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com> <200612041707.kB4H7Mnh020665@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <20061204100656.793d8d6a.akpm@osdl.org> 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: 589 Lines: 14 On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > but that's rather dumb. Better would be to remove mlocked pages from the > LRU. Could we generalize the removal of sections of a zone from the LRU? I believe this would help various buffer allocation schemes. We have some issues with heavy LRU scans if large buffers are allocated on some nodes. - 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/