From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] vmscan: Force kswapd to take notice faster when high-order watermarks are being hit
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 03:08:56 +0100
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On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> The congestion_wait() change, even if theoretically valid, introduced a
> very real regression IMO. Such long desktop freezes during swapping
> should be avoided; .30 and earlier simply behaved a whole lot better in
> the same situation.

I'll see if your new patch helps for this case.
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