From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: 2.4.8-pre1 and dbench -20% throughput Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:34:56 +0200 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01072917345603.00341@starship> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Linus Torvalds , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Mike Galbraith , Steven Cole , Roger Larsson List-ID: On Sunday 29 July 2001 16:48, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Saturday 28 July 2001 22:26, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > We only mark the page referenced when we read it, we don't > > > actually increment the age. > > > > For already-cached pages we have: > > > > do_generic_file_read->__find_page_nolock->age_page_up > > s/have/had/ > > This was changed quite a while ago. Yes, correct. (Should teach me not to rely on a 2.4.2 tree for my cross-reference.) Hmm, so now age_page_up is unused and age_page_up_nolock is called from just one place, refill_inactive_scan. The !age test still doesn't make sense. -- Daniel -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/