From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 01:25:46 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [highmem bug report against -test5 and -test6] Re: [PATCH] Re: simple FS application that hangs 2.4-test5, mem mgmt problem or FS buffer cache mgmt problem? (fwd) Message-ID: <20001003012546.C27493@athlon.random> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from mingo@elte.hu on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:29:27AM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , MM mailing list , "Stephen C. Tweedie" List-ID: On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:29:27AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > it can and does lose them - but only all of them. Aging OTOH is a per-bh > thing, this kind of granularity is simply not present in the current > page->buffers handling. This is all i wanted to mention. Not unsolvable, I'm pretty sure it doesn't worth the per-bh thing. And even if it would make any difference with a 1k fs for good performance 4k blksize is necessary anyway for other reasons. 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/