Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] vmscan: shrink_slab() require number of lru_pages,not page order

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> Fix simple argument error. Usually 'order' is very small value than
> lru_pages. then it can makes unnecessary icache dropping.

AFAICT this is not argument error but someone changed the naming of the
parameter. The "lru_pages" parameter is really a division factor affecting
the number of pages scanned. This patch increases this division factor
significantly and therefore reduces the number of items scanned during
zone_reclaim.


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