[Bug 1205 (linux mm)] New - 2.5: fix balancing for good

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http://distro.conectiva.com.br/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1205

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+| 2.5: fix balancing for good                                                |
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+|        Bug #: 1205                        Product: Linux kernel MM         |
+|       Status: NEW                         Version: 2.5 (beta)              |
+|   Resolution:                            Platform: All                     |
+|     Severity: major                    OS/Version: Linux                   |
+|     Priority: P3                        Component: linux mm                |
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+|  Assigned To: linux-mm-bugs@nl.linux.org                                   |
+|  Reported By: riel@conectiva.com.br                                        |
+|      CC list: Cc:                                                          |
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+|          URL:                                                              |
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+|                              DESCRIPTION                                   |
+VM balancing seems to have been a problem since before Linux 1.0, continuing
+with various degrees of (un)balance, having some especially fragile VM balancing
+in some of the 1.1, 1.2, 2.2 and 2.3 kernels.
+
+With balancing, in this report, is meant the balance between stealing pages from
+processes, from SHM segments and from the cache. Since we use separate functions
+for all of these activities, we have to balance them somehow.
+
+Now that we're close to having a VM subsystem of which we can understand what's
+going on and why things are happening, we might as well try and find a solution
+to get rid of the balancing issue forever.
+
+We can also include the balancing of inode and dentry caches in this problem,
+but since these items are not page sized it may be considerably more difficult
+to balance them well with normal VM operations.
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