Re: [PATCH] kswapd performance fix
From: Stephen C. Tweedie <hidden>
Date: 2000-02-25 10:26:34
From: Stephen C. Tweedie <hidden>
Date: 2000-02-25 10:26:34
Hi, On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:30:59 +0100 (CET), Rik van Riel [off-list ref] said:
The patch should apply to any 2.2 or 2.3 kernel, but for 2.3 it'll have the interesting side effect of nullifying the (minimal) page aging that's going on there.
Have you actually tested the impact of this under a variety of load conditions? In the past we have seen such apparently trivial changes completely break the VM balance under certain loads. --Stephen -- 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.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/