Commit d04f9f5a authored by Mike Rapoport's avatar Mike Rapoport Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs/vm: balance: convert to ReST format

Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 438b8e24
.. _balance:
================
Memory Balancing
================
Started Jan 2000 by Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@sgi.com>
Memory balancing is needed for !__GFP_ATOMIC and !__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM as
......@@ -89,7 +95,8 @@ pages is below watermark[WMARK_LOW]; in which case zone_wake_kswapd is also set.
(Good) Ideas that I have heard:
1. Dynamic experience should influence balancing: number of failed requests
for a zone can be tracked and fed into the balancing scheme (jalvo@mbay.net)
for a zone can be tracked and fed into the balancing scheme (jalvo@mbay.net)
2. Implement a replace_with_highmem()-like replace_with_regular() to preserve
dma pages. (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
dma pages. (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Markdown is supported
0%
or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment