Re: [patch] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

> (I'm still not sure what happened to the idea of adding a call to "clear
> out this node+zone's pagecache now" rather than "set this noed+zone's
> policy")

Yes, We need the clear this zones page cache functionality. I am not sure what the 
Martin's reclaiming code brings us. Since these patches do not allow the 
clearing of the page cache, we will still have off node allocations. 
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References:
- [patch] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()
  - From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
- Re: [patch] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()
  - From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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