Re: [PATCH] per-zone kswapd process

Daniel Phillips (phillips@arcor.de)
Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:44:30 +0200


On Friday 13 September 2002 06:59, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:06:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I still don't see why it's per zone and not per node. It seems strange
> > that a wee little laptop would be running two kswapds?
> > kswapd can get a ton of work done in the development VM and one per
> > node would, I expect, suffice?
>
> Machines without observable NUMA effects can benefit from it if it's
> per-zone.

How?

-- 
Daniel
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