From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: "Paul R. Wilson" <wilson@cs.utexas.edu>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: question about try_to_swap_out()
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:14:49 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199901121814.SAA11098@dax.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199901121658.KAA28147@feta.cs.utexas.edu>
Hi,
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:58:52 -0600, "Paul R. Wilson"
<wilson@cs.utexas.edu> said:
> I would think that it could be significant if you're skipping DMA
> pages, which are valuable. You want to get them back in a timely
> manner, so you want to go ahead and age them normally.
We don't ever do that. We can _require_ a DMA allocation, but we never
explicitly avoid allocating DMA pages.
--Stephen
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-12 16:58 Paul R. Wilson
1999-01-12 18:14 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
1999-01-14 10:15 ` ralf
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1999-01-12 18:42 Paul R. Wilson
1999-01-11 3:38 Paul R. Wilson
1999-01-12 16:10 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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