Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:19:50 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.3-mm3 |
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Nick Piggin wrote: > > > Mike Fedyk wrote: > >> Nick Piggin wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Mike Fedyk wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> OK, I'll give that a try. >>>> >>>> Is the attached patch the latest version of your alternative patch >>>> instead of shrink_slab-for-all-zones.patch? >>>> >>> >>> Yes that looks like it. I am actually starting to like this patch >>> again >> >> >> >> Didn't you like what you wrote in the first place ;) >> > > Hmm well no, it still reclaims slab too hard. I just forgot > why I didn't like it :P
So, you think vm-shrink-slab-lowmem.patch shrinks slab too much, or Andrew's patch (IIRC, those comments were for Andrew's patch...)?
> >>> now that lowmem is being properly scanned as a result of >>> highmem scanning. >> >> >> >> That's what zone-balancing-fix.patch does, right? >> > > Yes... but actually the kswapd path needs something similar. > That would be the batching patch, but with a scanning value > derived from the current size of the zone's lrus. > > I'd just stick with 2.6.3 for now :)
Hmm, do you think I'd get more slab shrinking with 2.6.3 + zone-balancing-fix.patch?
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