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Re: vm lock contention reduction

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 07:18:34PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Of course, that change means that we wouldn't be able to throttle
> page allocators against IO any more, and we'd have to do something
> smarter.  What a shame ;)

This is actually necessary IMHO. Some testing I've been able to do seems
to reveal the current throttling mechanism as inadequate.


Cheers,
Bill
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