linux-mm.kvack.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Craig Kulesa <ckulesa@as.arizona.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] move slab pages to the lru, for 2.5.27
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 14:31:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020721213131.GA919@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207210245080.6770-100000@loke.as.arizona.edu>

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 04:24:55AM -0700, Craig Kulesa wrote:
> This is an update for the 2.5 port of Ed Tomlinson's patch to move slab
> pages onto the lru for page aging, atop 2.5.27 and the full rmap patch.  
> It is aimed at being a fairer, self-tuning way to target and evict slab
> pages.

In combination with the pte_chain in slab patch, this should at long last
enable reclamation of unused pte_chains after surges in demand. Can you
test this to verify that reclamation is actually done? (I'm embroiled in
a long debugging session at the moment.)


Thanks,
Bill
--
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-mm.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-21 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-21 11:24 Craig Kulesa
2002-07-21 21:31 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-07-22  7:08   ` Craig Kulesa
2002-07-22 18:54 ` Steven Cole
2002-07-22 22:21   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-22 22:36     ` Craig Kulesa
2002-07-23  4:36       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-23 14:31       ` Steven Cole
2002-07-24 20:28         ` Steven Cole
2002-07-24 21:02           ` Steven Cole
     [not found] <200207210933.01211.tomlins@cam.org>
2002-07-21 21:24 ` Craig Kulesa
2002-07-21 23:15   ` Ed Tomlinson
     [not found] <200207242012.59150.tomlins@cam.org>
2002-07-25 12:00 ` Craig Kulesa

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20020721213131.GA919@holomorphy.com \
    --to=wli@holomorphy.com \
    --cc=ckulesa@as.arizona.edu \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox