Re: Andrea VM changes
From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo_at_parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk)
Date: 09/01/03
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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 15:26:02 -0300 (BRT) To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:13:57PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> > > You need to integrate with -aa on the VM. It has been hard enough for
> > > Andrea to get his stuff in, I doubt you will fair any better.
> >
> > Thats because I never received separate patches which make sense one by
> > one. Most of Andreas changes are all grouped into few big patches that
> > only he knows the mess. That is not the way to merge things.
> >
> > I want to work out with him after I merge other stuff to address that.
>
> that's true for only one patch, the others are pretty orthogonal after
> Andrew helped splitting them:
>
>
> 05_vm_03_vm_tunables-4
> 05_vm_05_zone_accounting-2
> 05_vm_06_swap_out-3
> 05_vm_07_local_pages-4
Two things: I will leave this local pages change to be applied later. I
want to see what it does by itself (apply swap_out() changes & friends now
and on another -pre local pages).
> 05_vm_08_try_to_free_pages_nozone-4
@@ -737,7 +737,6 @@ static void free_more_memory(void)
balance_dirty();
wakeup_bdflush();
try_to_free_pages(GFP_NOIO);
- run_task_queue(&tq_disk);
yield();
}
Whats the reason behind this?
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