Re: [PATCH] per-zone kswapd process
From: William Lee Irwin III <hidden>
Date: 2002-09-13 21:31:51
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On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 05:59, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
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Machines without observable NUMA effects can benefit from it if it's per-zone. It also follows that if there's more than one task doing this, page replacement is less likely to block entirely. Last, but not least, when I devised it, "per-zone" was the theme.
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:05:52PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
It will also increase the amount of disk head thrashing surely ?
I doubt it. Writeout isn't really supposed to happen there in 2.4 either, except under duress. OTOH I've not been doing much with this directly since rmap10c. Cheers, Bill -- 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-mm.org/