Con Kolivas wrote:
On Sunday 02 April 2006 14:46, Nick Piggin wrote:
Curious. I was under the impression lowmem reserve only did anything if you
manually set it, and the users reporting on swap prefetch behaviour are not
the sort of users likely to do so. I'm happy to fix whatever the lowmem
It is enabled by default for over a year.
reserve bug is but I doubt this bug is making swap prefetch behave better for
ordinary users. Well, whatever the case is I'll have another look at lowmem
reserve of course.
It would potentially make swap prefetch very happy to swap pages into the
dma zone and the normal zone on highmem systems when the system is
otherwise full of pagecache. So it might easily change behaviour on those
systems.
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