From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88BA06B004D for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:59:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1703.77.126.199.142.1249923286.squirrel@webmail.cs.biu.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <4A803F62.2050006@redhat.com> References: <4353.132.70.1.75.1249546446.squirrel@webmail.cs.biu.ac.il> <1249548768.32113.68.camel@twins> <1466.77.126.168.195.1249763409.squirrel@webmail.cs.biu.ac.il> <4A7E03B4.8010503@redhat.com> <1085.77.126.199.142.1249842457.squirrel@webmail.cs.biu.ac.il> <4A803F62.2050006@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:54:46 +0300 (IDT) Subject: Re: New patch for Linux From: "Yair Wiseman" Reply-To: wiseman@macs.biu.ac.il MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=windows-1255 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Rik van Riel Cc: wiseman@macs.biu.ac.il, Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org List-ID: It will work for larger amounts of memory. We just have to choose a longer time slice. I will try to find a newer version, but I do not see the difference in this case. We just suggest to replace the LRU-token approach. -Yair. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Yair Wiseman, Ph.D. Computer Science Department Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan 52900 Israel Tel: 972-3-5317015 Fax: 972-3-7384056 http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~wiseman >>From the keyboard of Rik van Riel > Yair Wiseman wrote: >> We tried to find his code and we found just the code of 2.4.20. I put it at: >> http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~wiseman/moses.html >> >> Thanks for considering our patch, > > Ummm no. It's for an ancient version of Linux and not even a > patch. There really isn't a whole lot to consider, beyond an > idea - which you admitted may not even work well on systems > with larger amounts of memory. > > -- > All rights reversed. > -- 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