Re: Yet another bogus piece of do_try_to_free_pages()

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 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.

Oh, I'm not doubting that. I just got suspicious when Linus
got asked to put it in the kernel after Zlatko tested it for
a few hours ... and when I spotted a lack of flags|=PF_MEMALLOC
around the thing.

(but from what marcelo told me, it got fixed in -pre8)

regards,

Rik
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