> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> > The following patch (against 2.4.6-ac2, already merged in 2.4.6-ac3) adds
> > specific perzone inactive/free shortage handling code.
>
> Marcelo, now that you have the nice VM statistics
> patch, do you have some numbers on how this patch
> affects the system,
Yes.
With the old code, I've seen zone specific shortages which caused the
kernel to free/deactivate pages from all zones.
> or is this patch based on guesswork ? ;)
Even if I did not had the stats, its senseless to free/deactivate pages
from zones which do not need to.
The old behaviour was fundamentally broken.
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