> But sigh. Pointlessly scanning zillions of dirty pages and doing
> nothing with them is dumb. So much better to go for a FIFO snooze on a
> per-zone waitqueue, be woken when some memory has been cleansed.
But not per-zone, since many (most?) allocations can be satisfied
from multiple zones. Guess what 2.4-rmap has had for ages ?
Interested in a port for 2.5 on top of 2.5.32-mm2 ? ;)
[I'll mercilessly increase your patch queue since it doesn't show
any sign of ever shrinking anyway]
cheers,
Rik
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