>Right now 2.3.16's kswapd doesn't check what kinds of memory are free.
Wrong. It only frees the regular memory.
>If we have a lot of free high-memory pages and no low-memory space free,
>then kswapd will stand idly by while the network layers are starved of
>memory. That's a _bad_ bug in the bigmem as it stands. I'll fix this
The bug is not present.
>next week if you aren't already working on it.
Read line 500 of vmscan.c in 2.3.16.
Andrea
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