From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com (penguin.e-mind.com [195.223.140.120]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA09352 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 17:54:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:29:16 +0100 (CET) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [patch] arca-vm-6, killed kswapd [Re: [patch] new-vm improvement , [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary]] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Steve Bergman , Benjamin Redelings I , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Alan Cox , Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > GPF_ATOMIC things are what the machine is doing. Imagine a machine that > acts as a router - it might not even be running any normal user processes Argg, I didn't thought at that, now I understood the point... But I am pretty sure we can continue to do async swapout also from the process path. I think it works fine because now swapout is only a bank credit. It works faster obviously because the process doesn't need to block and so requesting many swapout at one time will drammatically improve swapout I/O performances... I am going to re-insert the poor kswapd now ;) Thanks. Andrea Arcangeli -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org