lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2007]   [Jan]   [26]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:03:23 +1100
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>
> Yeah, it will be failing at order=4, because the allocator won't try
> very hard reclaim pagecache pages at that cutoff point. This needs to
> be fixed in the allocator.

A simple and perhaps sufficient fix for this nommu problem would be to replace
the magic "3" in __alloc_pages() with a tunable.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2007-01-26 11:53    [W:0.050 / U:0.500 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site