Re: [CFT][PATCH] smoother VM for -ac

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:44:13 -0300 (BRST)

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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