On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> --- 2.3.40pre1/mm/vmscan.c Sun Jan 9 20:45:31 2000
> +++ /tmp/vmscan.c Thu Jan 13 21:09:33 2000
> @@ -503,7 +503,7 @@
> do {
> /* kswapd is critical to provide GFP_ATOMIC
> allocations (not GFP_HIGHMEM ones). */
> - if (nr_free_buffer_pages() >= freepages.high)
> + if (nr_free_pages() - nr_free_highpages() >= freepages.high)
> break;
> if (!do_try_to_free_pages(GFP_KSWAPD, 0))
> break;
Indeed. Linus, please apply this patch...
Btw, shouldn't we make do_try_to_free_pages() a bit smarter
so that it doesn't free high memory pages when there are
enough free pages in that part of memory.
regards,
Rik
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