Re: [PATCH] test5-1 vm fix

Roger Larsson (roger.larsson@norran.net)
Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:10:29 +0200

Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Roger Larsson wrote:
> >
> > > Since I am responsible for messing up some aspects of vm
> > > (when fixing others)
> > > here is a patch that tries to solve the introduced problems.
>
> > Unfortunately, this didn't improve anything here.
>
> As was to be expected ...
>
> Roger, I thought I explained you yesterday why stuff didn't work
> and how it could be fixed? ;)
>
> (and no, I'm not interested in trying to fix 2.4 VM right now
> since I'll be going to OLS and last time it took only two weeks
> for VM to be fucked up while I was away)
>

Yes, Now I remember...

We should alway start kswapd after when all zones are found
to be zone_wake_kswapd... (but it will then only run once... but
probably free more pages than we alloc)

Expect a new patch soon... I will do more performance testing this
time...

/RogerL

> cheers,
>
> Rik
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>
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