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

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Sat, 1 Jul 2000 07:52:43 -0300 (BRST)

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 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.

I think I have a fix for that. I just haven't had a chance
to test it here at Linuxtag...

Rik

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