From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758342AbYFIAiv (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:38:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756545AbYFIAio (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:38:44 -0400 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:59016 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756409AbYFIAin (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:38:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:38:58 +0900 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] add throttle to shrink_zone() Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, LKML , linux-mm In-Reply-To: <20080608131203.e8cd69b7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080605021505.306358710@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080608131203.e8cd69b7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-Id: <20080609093741.7868.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.42 [ja] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > add throttle to shrink_zone() for performance improvement and prevent incorrect oom. > > We should have a description of how all this works, please. I thought > that was present in earlier iterations of this patchset. > > It's quite hard and quite unreliable to reverse engineer both the > design and your thinking from the implementation. Oh, sorry. I'll write properly description soon. Thans.