From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965136AbWFIEBG (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 00:01:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965135AbWFIEBG (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 00:01:06 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:39625 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965136AbWFIEBF (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 00:01:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:00:56 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hugh@veritas.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org, ak@suse.de, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, clameter@sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] Use per zone counters to remove zone_reclaim_interval Message-Id: <20060608210056.9b2f3f13.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060608230305.25121.97821.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> References: <20060608230239.25121.83503.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20060608230305.25121.97821.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter wrote: > Caveat: The number of mapped pages includes anonymous pages. > The current check works but is a bit too cautious. We could perform > zone reclaim down to the last unmapped page if we would split NR_MAPPED > into NR_MAPPED_PAGECACHE and NR_MAPPED_ANON. Maybe later. That caveat should be in a code comment, please. Otherwise we'll forget. You have two [patch 04/14]s and no [patch 05/14].