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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: VM 3/8 PG_skipped
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:51:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1113846712.10810.111.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504181111390.8456@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:12 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> 
> > Don't call ->writepage from VM scanner when page is met for the first time
> > during scan.
> 
> > Reason behind this is that ->writepages() will perform more efficient 
> > writeout than ->writepage(). Skipping of page can be conditioned on 
> > zone->pressure.
> 
> Agreed, in order to write out blocks of pages at once from
> the pageout code, we'll need to wait with writing until the
> dirty bit has been propagated from the ptes to the pages.

Is there a way to do this without consuming a page->flags bit?  We're
starting to run really low on them.

-- Dave

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-18 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-17 17:36 Nikita Danilov
2005-04-18 15:12 ` Rik van Riel
2005-04-18 17:51   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2005-04-18 20:29     ` Nikita Danilov
2005-04-26  3:43 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-02  9:03   ` Hirokazu Takahashi

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