From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:42:30 -0400 From: Benjamin LaHaise Subject: Re: MM patches against 2.5.31 Message-ID: <20020826234230.B21820@redhat.com> References: <3D644C70.6D100EA5@zip.com.au> <20020826200048.3952.qmail@thales.mathematik.uni-ulm.de> <3D6A9E4D.DBCC5D0A@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D6A9E4D.DBCC5D0A@zip.com.au>; from akpm@zip.com.au on Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:31:57PM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Daniel Phillips , Christian Ehrhardt , lkml , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:31:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > I like the magical-removal-just-before-free, and my gut feel is that > it'll provide a cleaner end result. For the record, I'd rather see explicite removal everwhere. We received a number of complaints along the lines of "I run my app immediately after system startup, and it's fast, but the second time it's slower" due to the lazy page reclaim in early 2.4. Until there's a way to make LRU scanning faster than page allocation, it can't be lazy. -ben -- 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/