From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:17:26 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM kswapd autotuning vs. -ac7 Message-ID: <20000607151726.L30951@redhat.com> References: <20000607143242.D30951@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from cr@sap.com on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 04:11:20PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Rohland Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi, On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 04:11:20PM +0200, Christoph Rohland wrote: > > But for persistence we now have the shm dentries (We will have at > least. I am planning to reuse the ramfs directory handling for shm > fs. This locks the dentries into the cache for persistence). > > Couldn't we use this to get the desired behaviour? No, the dentries make things neat for the VFS but they don't help the VM at all. Cheers, Stephen -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/