Re: [PATCH 2/2] vmscan: kill shrink_all_zones()

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Mon Oct 12 2009 - 04:14:08 EST


> > Throuput comparision
> > ==============================================
> > old 2192.10 MB/s
> > new 2222.22 MB/s
> >
> > ok, it's almost same throuput.
> >
> > Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I have no objections to any of the two patches, but I think we may want to drop
> shrink_all_memory() altogether. Everything should work without it and the
> reason I didn't remove it was because I saw a performance regression on one
> system without it. It may not be worth keeping it, though.
>
> Have you done any tests with shrink_all_memory() removed?

Honestly, I haven't try to remvoe shrink_all_memory() at all. then, I don't have any
mesurement data of shrink_all_memory.
Yes, your opinion seems reasonable. I plan to mesure it awhile after. (sorry, I haven't
enough development time in this month)



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