Re: 2.6.9-rc4-mm1

[Nick Piggin]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > +no-wild-kswapd-2.patch
> >
> > Is this an improvement?
>
>
> Seems to be a wash in my testing.
>
>
> > It again decouples the "priority" semantics of
> > the direct and asynch reclaim paths.
>
>
> What's that mean?

Before those patches, priority means what fraction of the lists
have to be scanned to free 32 pages.

Afterwards, it means something significantly different for
balance_pgdat.
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