From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: frankeh@us.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] RSS guarantees and limits
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:00:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000622220049.G28360@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006221651230.1170-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 04:52:29PM -0300
Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Be careful with refault rate. If a process is unable to
> > progress because of memory pressure, it will have a low refault
> > rate even though it's _trying_ to fault in lots of pages at high
> > speed.
>
> We probably want to use fault rate and memory size too in
> order to promote fairness.
The number of global memory events between the process getting one page
and requesting the next may indicate of how much page activity the
process is trying to do. (Relative to other memory users).
> All of this may sound complicated, but as long as we make
> sure that the feedback cycles are short (and negative ;))
> it should all work out...
Keeping them negative is tricky :-)
-- Jamie
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-22 16:22 frankeh
2000-06-22 16:38 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 19:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-06-22 19:52 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 20:00 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2000-06-22 20:07 ` Rik van Riel
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2000-06-23 18:07 frankeh
2000-06-23 14:01 frankeh
2000-06-23 17:56 ` Stephen Tweedie
2000-06-22 23:02 Mark_H_Johnson
2000-06-22 15:49 frankeh
2000-06-22 16:05 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 14:41 frankeh
2000-06-22 15:31 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-21 22:29 Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 18:00 ` John Fremlin
2000-06-22 19:12 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 21:19 ` Stephen Tweedie
2000-06-22 21:37 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 22:48 ` John Fremlin
2000-06-22 23:59 ` Stephen Tweedie
2000-06-23 16:08 ` John Fremlin
2000-06-22 22:39 ` John Fremlin
2000-06-22 23:27 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-23 0:49 ` Ed Tomlinson
2000-06-23 13:45 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-23 15:36 ` volodya
2000-06-23 15:52 ` John Fremlin
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