Re: [RFC] 2.3.39 zone balancing
From: Rik van Riel <hidden>
Date: 2000-01-13 21:12:05
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- 2.3.40pre1/mm/vmscan.c Sun Jan 9 20:45:31 2000 +++ /tmp/vmscan.c Thu Jan 13 21:09:33 2000@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ do { /* kswapd is critical to provide GFP_ATOMIC allocations (not GFP_HIGHMEM ones). */ - if (nr_free_buffer_pages() >= freepages.high) + if (nr_free_pages() - nr_free_highpages() >= freepages.high) break; if (!do_try_to_free_pages(GFP_KSWAPD, 0)) break;
Indeed. Linus, please apply this patch... Btw, shouldn't we make do_try_to_free_pages() a bit smarter so that it doesn't free high memory pages when there are enough free pages in that part of memory. regards, Rik -- The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network of people. That is its real strength. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.nl.linux.org/Linux-MM/