Re: [PATCH] 2.2.17pre7 VM enhancement Re: I/O performance on

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:58:24 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

>The problems were not fix by the protected-balance, but by returning
>success on any progress made at do_try_to_free_pages().

Returning success on any progress makes a difference only during oom (and
it also caused my machine to hang and I had to use SYSRQ+E). If you aren't
oom then it doesn't change anything.

>Alan is going to apply them together anyway, thats why I merged them.

Alan prefers to get them separately AFIK, otherwise I would not keeping
them separately in first place ;).

Andrea

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