From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15137.18422.26069.486131@pizda.ninka.net> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:47:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Background scanning change on 2.4.6-pre1 In-Reply-To: References: <15137.17195.500288.181489@pizda.ninka.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Linus Torvalds , Mike Galbraith , Zlatko Calusic , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Marcelo Tosatti writes: > How do you think the problem should be attacked, if you have any > opinion at all ? All I know is that keeping track of anon areas is not the way I would approach the problem. Even if you get anon areas to work, they bloat up the common case just to possibly make swapping a little big quicker. I mean, it didn't degenerate to Solaris fork+exit latencies or anything like that (that would be a huge challenge :-), but it did show up quite noticably in the tests I had done at the time. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com -- 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/