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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Another wish item for your TODO list...
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 21:44:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001023214424.B3749@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010231810220.13115-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:13:48PM -0200

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:13:48PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> - if the memory item (file, shm segment, ...) is in use, move
>   the page to the inactive list (equivalent to our inactive_dirty)
> - if the item isn't in use, move the page to the cache list
>   (equivalent to our inactive_clean list)
> 
> We could extend this by moving *every* page of an item which
> isn't in use to the inactive_clean list once we move ONE page
> of such an item to that list (or reclaim it?).

For unused inodes which are never sequentially accessed, this should
make a lot of sense.

--Stephen
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-23 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-23 16:54 Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-10-23 17:02 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-23 17:36   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-10-23 18:07     ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-23 19:38       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-10-23 20:13         ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-23 20:44           ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-10-23 22:28     ` Ingo Oeser
2000-10-23 22:32       ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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