Re: memory handling in pre5/pre6

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 05:58:30 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 07:28:44PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > very obsolete stuff. The fix is to put the lru into the NUMA structure
> > instead of in the zone. That's another thing I want to fix.
>
> You must be the only one who wants this. Linus has already said
> that he wants to make memory management a per-zone thing...

Balancing between the zones *has* to be global. A global lru is one
way to achieve that. If you don't have a single lru, then you need to
emulate one by shrinking zones in an intelligently balanced way.

--Stephen

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