Re: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat"

[Nick Piggin]

Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> --Nick Piggin <piggin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote (on Thursday, February 05, 2004 22:47:23 +1100):
>
>
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2/2.6.2-mm1/
> > >
> > >
> > > - Merged some page reclaim fixes from Nick and Nikita.  These yield some
> > > performance improvements in low memory and heavy paging situations.
> > Nikita's vm-dont-rotate-active-list.patch still has this:
> >
> > +/* dummy pages used to scan active lists */
> > +static struct page scan_pages[MAX_NUMNODES][MAX_NR_ZONES];
> > +
> >
> > Which probably needs its nodes and cachelines untangled.
> > Maybe it doesn't - I really don't know.
>
> The idle toad's way is to shove it in the pgdat.
> Maybe even the zone structure?

It logically belongs in the zone structure, but apparently
dependancies will not allow that right now.

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