On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Russell King wrote:
> >
> > > I think I've solved (very dirtily) my kswapd problem
> >
> > Your patch is the correct one. I've added an extra reschedule
> > point and cleaned up the code a little bit. I wonder who sent
> > the brown-paper-bag patch with the superfluous while loop to
> > Linus ... (please raise your hand and/or buy rmk a beer)
>
> That would be me ...
>
> What is the problem that your patch is fixing?
Removing the superfluous while loop.
Without my patch kswapd uses between 50 and 70% CPU time
in a particular workload. Now it uses between 3 and 5%.
Oh, and the latency problem probably has been fixed too...
cheers,
Rik
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