patch-2.2.0-pre6 linux/mm/page_alloc.c

• Lines: 19
• Date: Fri Jan 8 15:34:32 1999
• Orig file: v2.2.0-pre5/linux/mm/page_alloc.c
• Orig date: Thu Jan 7 15:11:41 1999

diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.2.0-pre5/linux/mm/page_alloc.c linux/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -258,9 +258,6 @@
 		 * a bad memory situation, we're better off trying
 		 * to free things up until things are better.
 		 *
-		 * Normally we shouldn't ever have to do this, with
-		 * kswapd doing this in the background.
-		 *
 		 * Most notably, this puts most of the onus of
 		 * freeing up memory on the processes that _use_
 		 * the most memory, rather than on everybody.
@@ -282,7 +279,7 @@
 		{
 			int freed;
 			current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
-			freed = try_to_free_pages(gfp_mask, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX);
+			freed = try_to_free_pages(gfp_mask, freepages.high - nr_free_pages);
 			current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
 			if (!freed && !(gfp_mask & (__GFP_MED | __GFP_HIGH)))
 				goto nopage;