On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Andrew Morton wrote: > > AFAICT this is not argument error but someone changed the naming of the > > parameter. > > It's been there since day zero: > > : commit 2a16e3f4b0c408b9e50297d2ec27e295d490267a > : Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > : AuthorDate: Wed Feb 1 03:05:35 2006 -0800 > : Commit: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxx> > : CommitDate: Wed Feb 1 08:53:16 2006 -0800 > : > : [PATCH] Reclaim slab during zone reclaim That only shows that the order parameter was passed to shrink_slab() which is what I remember being done intentionally. Vaguely recall that this was necessary to avoid shrink_slab() throwing out too many pages for higher order allocs. Initially zone_reclaim was full of heuristics that later were replaced by counter as the new ZVCs became available and gradually better ways of accounting for pages became possible. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>