Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:15:07 -0200 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 14/14] page-replace-kswapd-incmin.patch |
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On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 11:42:34PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> > > Explicitly teach kswapd about the incremental min logic instead of just scanning > all zones under the first low zone. This should keep more even pressure applied > on the zones. > > The new shrink_zone() logic exposes the very worst side of the current > balance_pgdat() function. Without this patch reclaim is limited to ZONE_DMA.
Can you please describe the issue with over protection of DMA zone you experienced?
I'll see if I can reproduce it with Nick's standalone patch on top of vanilla, what load was that?
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