On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:52:39 +0100 Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This patch tracks how many pages backed by a congested BDI were found during > > > scanning. If all the dirty pages encountered on a list isolated from the > > > LRU belong to a congested BDI, the zone is marked congested until the zone > > > reaches the high watermark. > > > > High watermark, or low watermark? > > > > High watermark. The check is made by kswapd. > > > The terms are rather ambiguous so let's avoid them. Maybe "full" > > watermark and "empty"? > > > > Unfortunately they are ambiguous to me. I know what the high watermark > is but not what the full or empty watermarks are. Really. So what's the "high" watermark? From the above text I'm thinking that you mean the high watermark is when the queue has a small number of requests and the low watermark is when the queue has a large number of requests. I'd have thought that this is backwards: the "high" watermark is when the queue has a large (ie: high) number of requests. A problem. How do we fix it? -- 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>