Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 06 Feb 2004 03:16:09 +1100 | | From | Nick Piggin <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat" |
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Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>--Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote (on Thursday, February 05, 2004 22:47:23 +1100): > > >>Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> >>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2/2.6.2-mm1/ >>> >>> >>>- Merged some page reclaim fixes from Nick and Nikita. These yield some >>> performance improvements in low memory and heavy paging situations. >>> >>> >>> >>Nikita's vm-dont-rotate-active-list.patch still has this: >> >>+/* dummy pages used to scan active lists */ >>+static struct page scan_pages[MAX_NUMNODES][MAX_NR_ZONES]; >>+ >> >>Which probably needs its nodes and cachelines untangled. >>Maybe it doesn't - I really don't know. >> > >The idle toad's way is to shove it in the pgdat. >Maybe even the zone structure? > >
It logically belongs in the zone structure, but apparently dependancies will not allow that right now.
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