Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:05:57 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: Inclusion of zoned inactive/free shortage patch |
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > This fixes most of the highmem problems (I'm not able to deadlock a 4GB > machine running memory-intensive programs with the patch anymore. I've > also received one success report from Dirk Wetter running two 2GB > simulations on a 4GB machine).
Do you have any really compelling reasons for adding the zone parameter to swap-out?
At worst, we get a few more page-faults (not IO). At best, NOT doing this should generate a more complete picture of the VM state. I'd really prefer the VM scanning to not be zone-aware..
Linus
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