Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:32:26 +0200 (CEST) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: [patch] swap-speedup-2.4.3-B3 (fwd) |
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > limit the runtime of refill_inactive_scan(). This is similar to Rik's > > > > reclaim-limit+aging-tuning patch to linux-mm yesterday. could you try > > > > Rik's patch with your patch except this jiffies hack, does it still > > > > achieve the same improvement? > > > > > > No. It livelocked on me with almost all active pages exausted. > > > > Misspoke.. I didn't try the two mixed. Rik's patch livelocked me. > > Interesting. The semantics of my patch are practically the same as > those of the stock kernel ... can you get the stock kernel to > livelock on you, too ?
Generally no. Let kswapd continue to run? Yes, but not always.
-Mike
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