Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:19:17 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: fix malused nr_reclaimed in shrinking zone | From | Hillf Danton <> |
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Hi Andrew
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > I'm thinking we have a bit of code rot happening here. This comment: > > /* > * On large memory systems, scan >> priority can become > * really large. This is fine for the starting priority; > * we want to put equal scanning pressure on each zone. > * However, if the VM has a harder time of freeing pages, > * with multiple processes reclaiming pages, the total > * freeing target can get unreasonably large. > */ > > seems to have little to do with the code which it is trying to > describe. Or at least, I'm not sure this is the best we can possibly > do :( >
Try to do it soon 8-)
> > Also, your email client is adding MIME goop to the emails which mine > (sylpheed) is unable to decrypt. It turns "=" into "=3D" everywhere. > This: > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I blame sylpheed for this, but if you can make it stop, that would make > my life easier, and perhaps others. >
More care will take gmail later on.
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