Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:49:57 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] shrink_list: Use of && instead || leads to unintended writing of pages |
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The effects of this fix will be a) slightly improved memory allocator > latency, b) somehat improved disk writeout patterns and c) somewhat > increased risk of ooms.
If we do not operate in laptop mode and are not using zone_reclaim (!may_writepage) which is the common case then there will be no effect at all.
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