From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] using page aging to shrink caches
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:47:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020521144759.B1153@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205180010.51382.tomlins@cam.org>; from tomlins@cam.org on Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:10:51AM -0400
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:10:51AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> I have never been happy with the way slab cache shrinking worked. This is an
> attempt to make it better. Working with the rmap vm on pre7-ac2, I have done
> the following.
Thank you! This is should help greatly with some of the vm imbalances by
making slab reclaim part of the self tuning dynamics instead of hard coded
magic numbers. Do you have any plans to port this patch to 2.5 for inclusion?
It would be useful to get testing in the 2.5 before merging in 2.4.
-ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-21 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-18 4:10 Ed Tomlinson
2002-05-21 18:47 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-05-24 11:28 ` [RFC][PATCH] using page aging to shrink caches (pre8-ac5) Ed Tomlinson
2002-05-24 11:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-05-24 12:14 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-05-24 12:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-05-24 11:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-29 12:01 ` Ed Tomlinson
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