Re: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat"

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 11:19:48 EST




Martin J. Bligh wrote:

--Nick Piggin <piggin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote (on Thursday, February 05, 2004 22:47:23 +1100):


Andrew Morton wrote:


ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2/2.6.2-mm1/


- Merged some page reclaim fixes from Nick and Nikita. These yield some
performance improvements in low memory and heavy paging situations.



Nikita's vm-dont-rotate-active-list.patch still has this:

+/* dummy pages used to scan active lists */
+static struct page scan_pages[MAX_NUMNODES][MAX_NR_ZONES];
+

Which probably needs its nodes and cachelines untangled.
Maybe it doesn't - I really don't know.


The idle toad's way is to shove it in the pgdat.
Maybe even the zone structure?



It logically belongs in the zone structure, but apparently
dependancies will not allow that right now.

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