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Re: Yet another bogus piece of do_try_to_free_pages()

To: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko@iskon.hr>
Subject: Re: Yet another bogus piece of do_try_to_free_pages()
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:22:48 +0100 (CET)
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>
In-Reply-To: <87snmirodw.fsf@atlas.iskon.hr>
Reply-To: <mingo@elte.hu>
Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org

On 17 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote:

> Oh, believe me I tested that patch very thoroughly with lots of
> utilities, and it worked very very well. I don't remember that it
> fiddled anywhere with the PG_MEMALLOC flag.

yep, same result here, Marcelo's patch is plain *wonderful*. Combined with
the block-IO changes, -pre8 is really behaving spectacularly in under high
VM or pagecache load.

	Ingo

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