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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] cache shrinking via page age
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 07:20:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020514142058.GH15756@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205132238.31589.tomlins@cam.org>

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:38:31PM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> Andrew Morton pointed out that the kernel is using 8m pages and is 
> setting reference bits for these pages...  He suggested (amoung other
> things - thanks) that setting the bits in kmem_cache_alloc would be 
> a good start to making aging happen.   This version of the patch 
> impliments his suggestion.
> Comments?
> Ed Tomlinson

8MB pages? What architecture?


Cheers,
Bill
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      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-14 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-11 20:14 Ed Tomlinson
2002-05-12 13:49 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-05-14  2:38   ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-05-14 14:20     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]

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