From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 15:49:28 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: [PATCH] modified segq for 2.5 Message-ID: <20020909224928.GH18800@holomorphy.com> References: <3D7CF077.FB251EC7@digeo.com> <3D7D09D7.2AE5AD71@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D7D09D7.2AE5AD71@digeo.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Rik van Riel , sfkaplan@cs.amherst.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Rik van Riel wrote: >> Move them to the inactive list the moment we're done writing >> them, that is, the moment we move on to the next page. We >> wouldn't want to move the last page from /var/log/messages to >> the inactive list all the time ;) On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 01:51:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > The moment "who" has done writing them? Some writeout > comes in via shrink_foo() and a ton of writeout comes in > via balance_dirty_pages(), pdflush, etc. > Do we need to distinguish between the various contexts? Ideally some distinction would be nice, even if only to distinguish I/O demanded to be done directly by the workload from background writeback and/or readahead. Cheers, 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/