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    SubjectRe: [patch] swap-speedup-2.4.3-B3 (fwd)
    On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

    > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
    > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
    > >
    > > > > limit the runtime of refill_inactive_scan(). This is similar to Rik's
    > > > > reclaim-limit+aging-tuning patch to linux-mm yesterday. could you try
    > > > > Rik's patch with your patch except this jiffies hack, does it still
    > > > > achieve the same improvement?
    > > >
    > > > No. It livelocked on me with almost all active pages exausted.
    > >
    > > Misspoke.. I didn't try the two mixed. Rik's patch livelocked me.
    >
    > Interesting. The semantics of my patch are practically the same as
    > those of the stock kernel ... can you get the stock kernel to
    > livelock on you, too ?

    Generally no. Let kswapd continue to run? Yes, but not always.

    -Mike

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