From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 21:44:24 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: Another wish item for your TODO list... Message-ID: <20001023214424.B3749@redhat.com> References: <20001023203853.A3295@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:13:48PM -0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- 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/