From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:49:53 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 - fixing deadlocks Message-ID: <20000925194953.A29260@athlon.random> References: <20000924231240.D5571@athlon.random> <20000924224303.C2615@redhat.com> <20000925001342.I5571@athlon.random> <20000925003650.A20748@home.ds9a.nl> <20000925014137.B6249@athlon.random> <20000925192148.A24362@home.ds9a.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20000925192148.A24362@home.ds9a.nl>; from ahu@ds9a.nl on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:21:48PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:21:48PM +0200, bert hubert wrote: > Ok, sorry. Kernel development is proceding at a furious pace and I sometimes > lose track. No problem :). > I seem to remember that people were impressed by classzone, but that the > implementation was very non-trivial and hard to grok. One of the reasons Yes. Classzone is certainly more complex. > There is no such thing as 'under swap'. There are lots of loadpatterns that > will generate different kinds of memory pressure. Just calling it 'under > swap' gives entirely the wrong impression. Sorry for not being precise. I meant one of those load patterns. > 'rivaling virtual memory' code. Energies spent on Rik's VM will yield far > higher differential improvement. I've spent efforts on classzone as well, and since I think it's way superior approch I'll at least port it on top of 2.4.0-test9 as soon as time permits to generate some number. Andrea -- 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/