From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages -v10 From: Peter Zijlstra In-Reply-To: References: <20060619175243.24655.76005.sendpatchset@lappy> <20060619175253.24655.96323.sendpatchset@lappy> <1151019590.15744.144.camel@lappy> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:22:18 +0200 Message-Id: <1151083338.30819.28.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Hugh Dickins , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , David Howells , Christoph Lameter , Martin Bligh , Nick Piggin List-ID: On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 10:00 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Also Peter has made the tracking configurable. So there is a way > to switch it off if it is harmful for some situations. Oh? > You mean anonymous pages? Anonymous pages are always dirty unless > you consider swap and we currently do not take account of dirty anonymous > pages. With swap we already have performance problems and maybe there are > additional issues to fix in that area. But these are secondary. I intent to make swap over NFS work next. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org