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SubjectRe: kswapd (simple) question
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> The comments in mm/vmscan.c:kswapd() say "wake up once a second" but I
> cannot see any timers setup there - all I see is a simple sleep/wakeup
> relationship with mm/page_alloc.c:__alloc_pages(). What am I missing?
> Does someone send a signal to kswapd to wake it up, besides the usual wake
> up done in page_alloc.c?
>
> Also, it points to __get_free_pages() for explanation of PF_MEMALLOC,
> whilst I think it should point to __alloc_pages() instead.

Which kernel version?

I know that in most kernels kswapd _will_ wake up all by
itself...

regards,

Rik
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