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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Subtle MM bug
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:42:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010111094223.C25375@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101110116370.8924-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>; from marcelo@conectiva.com.br on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:30:18AM -0200

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:30:18AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > So one "conditional aging" algorithm might just be something as simple as
> 
> I've done a very easy conditional aging patch (I dont think doing new
> functions to scan the active list and the pte's is necessary)

You still need to decay the bg_page_aging counter a little somewhere,
otherwise if you've been running a long-lived workload which keeps
most of memory recently activated, you'll build up such a large
counter that going idle will still age everything to zero.

This might be as simple as clamping the value of the counter to some
arbitrary maximum value such as num_physpages.

Cheers,
 Stephen
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-11  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200101080602.WAA02132@pizda.ninka.net>
2001-01-08  6:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 13:11   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-08 16:42     ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 17:43     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 13:57   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-08 17:29     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 18:10       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-08 21:52         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-09  0:28           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 23:49             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-09  3:12               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 20:33                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-09 22:44                   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 21:33                     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-09 22:11                       ` Yet another bogus piece of do_try_to_free_pages() Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-10  0:06                         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-10  6:39                           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-10 22:19                             ` Roger Larsson
2001-01-11  0:11                             ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-17  6:58                               ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-17  6:07                                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-17 19:04                                 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-17 19:22                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-18  0:55                                     ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-17  6:52                           ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-09 23:58                       ` Subtle MM bug Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 22:21                         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-10  0:23                           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-10  0:12                             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-10 11:29                               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-11  3:30                             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-11  9:42                               ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2001-01-11 15:24                                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-17  4:54                 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 16:45   ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 17:50     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 18:21       ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 18:38         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-07 20:59 Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-07 21:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-07 22:33   ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-09  2:01   ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-17  4:48     ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-17 18:53       ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-18  1:32         ` Rik van Riel

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