linux-kernel - Re: Avoid allocating during interleave from almost full nodes

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Message-Id: <20061108092106.1d3a2971.pj@sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 8 Nov 2006 09:21:06 -0800
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	clameter@....com, akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Avoid allocating during interleave from almost full nodes

Peter wrote:
> I was just hoping we could come up with 1 vm-time

Eh - why?

At least for secondary uses such as this, marking little node local
caches stale, so we are forced to refresh them occassionally, I'd
almost as soon avoid beating with other activity, and keeping the
affect rather like background white noise.

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