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From: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <AKPM@Osdl.ORG>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: VM 4/8 dont-rotate-active-list
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:54:19 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16997.3467.378280.467539@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504180847350.3232@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>

Rik van Riel writes:
 > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Nikita Danilov wrote:
 > 
 > > This patch modifies refill_inactive_zone() so that it scans active_list
 > > without rotating it. To achieve this, special dummy page zone->scan_page
 > > is maintained for each zone. This page marks a place in the active_list
 > > reached during scanning.
 > 
 > Doesn't this make the active list behave closer to FIFO ?
 > 
 > How does this behave when running a mix of multiple
 > applications, instead of one app that's referencing
 > memory in a circular pattern ?   Say, AIM7 ?

Nick Piggin found that this patch improves kbuild performance:

http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2004-01/msg00111.html

That thread also contains lengthy discussion of why this patch was
supposed to work.

 > 

Nikita.
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-19 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-17 17:36 Nikita Danilov
2005-04-18 12:49 ` Rik van Riel
2005-04-19 13:54   ` Nikita Danilov [this message]
2005-04-26  3:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-26  6:51   ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-26  8:11   ` Nikita Danilov
2005-04-26  8:18     ` Andrew Morton

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