Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:50:30 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: the new VM |
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:26:48AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > This thread keeps freeing pages from the inactive clean list when needed > (when zone->free_pages < zone->pages_low), making them available for > atomic allocations.
This is flawed. It's the irq that have to shrink the memory itself. It can't certainly reschedule kreclaimd and wait it to do the work.
Increasing the free_pages_min limit is the _only_ alternative to having irqs that are able to shrink clean cache (and hopefully that "feature" will be resurrected soon since it's the only way to go right now).
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