Re: lowmem_reserve (replaces protection)

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> what we'll happen is that we'll blindly free a few pages from each zone,
> but then we'll be allowed to allocate the highmem pages, and not the
> normal/dma pages. So after allocating the highmem pages we invoke kswapd
> again and it frees again some highmem/normal/dma pages but we keep only
> using the highmem ones.  So for a while we may be rolling over only the
> highmem lru and ignoring all freed pages from the normal/dma zones.

This is not how the page allocator in 2.6 works.

It will not wake up kswapd until it is past the low
watermark in all zones.


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