Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:42:22 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: The IBM order relaxation patch |
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:16:22 -0200 (BRST) > > The only problem is that it doesn't. It won't try to free > pages once you have enough free pages, which means you'll > just end up in a livelock. > > It always calls balance_classzone which always calls try_to_free_pages > which always will try to free SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages.
Duh, indeed. It seems Linus' free_plenty() checks were removed somewhere along the way.
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