Re: [PATCH 02/12] mm: supporting variables and functions forbalanced zone aging

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Dec 01 2005 - 22:41:27 EST


Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Could be. But what about the bug which I think is there? That'll cause
> > overscanning of the DMA zone.
>
> There were about 12Mb of inactive pages on the DMA zone. You're hypothesis
> was that there were no LRU pages to be scanned on DMA zone?

No, my hypothesis was that balance_pgdat() had a bug. Looking at it again,
I don't see it any more..
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