Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 10 Feb 2000 20:07:25 +0100 (CET) | | From | Rik van Riel <> | | Subject | Re: kswapd (simple) question |
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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,
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