Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jan 1998 17:13:41 +0100 | From | "Dr. Werner Fink" <> | Subject | Re: Q: GFP_IO not in development kernels? |
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> > I was just looking and in the 2.0.3x series a allocation priority > GFP_IO was added. This affected things like shrink_mmap. > > Looking in 2.1.76, always running behind I know, I noticed that GFP_IO > has not been added. Was this an oversight or has the problem been > solved in some other way?
I've added this prio to avoid mostly unnecessary swapping for a buffer page under exterm stress (without we would get disk I/O in O(2)). The belowing problem is (or should be:) solved in 2.1.6x and higher.
Werner
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