From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:14:49 -0700 Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't write all inactive pages at once Message-ID: <20020816021449.GA1531@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: From: Bill Huey (Hui) Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Bill Huey (Hui)" List-ID: On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:24:45PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > Hi, > > the following patch, against current 2.4-rmap, makes sure we don't > write the whole inactive dirty list to disk at once and seems to > greatly improve system response time when under swap or other heavy > IO load. > > Scanning could be much more efficient by using a marker page or > similar tricks, but for now I'm going for the minimalist approach. > If this thing works I'll make it fancy. > > Please test this patch and let me know what you think. Hey, Test your patch ? What ??!?!! :) Actually, the interactivity is much better overall and it seems to much less stupid stuff (by non-empirical feel) than it use to. It's just a matter of seeing if my experiences are backed up by others using this patch. ;) (/me hopes) 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/