Re: [PATCH] allocate page caches pages in round robin fasion

[Martin J. Bligh]

>>> Well, either we're:
>>> 
>>> 1. Falling back and putting all our most recent accesses off-node.
>>> 
>>> or.
>>> 
>>> 2. Not falling back and only able to use one node's memory for any one 
>>> (single threaded) app.
>>> 
>>> Either situation is crap, though I'm not sure which turd we picked right
>>> now ... I'd have to look at the code again ;-) I thought it was 2, but
>>> I might be wrong.
>>>  
>> 
>> I'm looking at this now. We are doing 1 currently.
> 
> In theory, yes. In practice, I have a feeling kswapd will keep us above
> the level of free memory where we'd fall back to another zone to allocate,
> won't it?

Nope - tested it. Buggered if I can see how that works, but it does ;-)

M.

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