From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:28:12 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 - fixing deadlocks Message-ID: <20000926002812.C5010@athlon.random> References: <20000925213242.A30832@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:26:17PM -0300 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:26:17PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > It doesn't --- that is part of the design. The vm scanner propagates > > > > And that's the inferior part of the design IMHO. > > Indeed, but physical page based aging is a definate > 2.5 thing ... ;( I'm talking about the fact that if you have a file mmapped in 1.5G of RAM test9 will waste time rolling between LRUs 384000 pages, while classzone won't ever see 1 of those pages until you run low on fs cache. 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/