Re: nonblocking-vm.patch

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

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > get cleaned.  We can do this by simply refusing to
> > scan that zone again for a number of jiffies, say
> > 1/4 of a second.
>
> Well, it may be better to terminate that sleep earlier if IO
> completes.

But only if enough IO completes. Otherwise we'll just end
up doing too much scanning for no gain again.

Rik
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