From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] My research agenda for 2.7
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 01:18:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200306290118.18266.phillips@arcor.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030629220756.GB26348@holomorphy.com>
On Monday 30 June 2003 00:07, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Sunday 29 June 2003 23:26, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > ...I will occupy myself with the
> > gritty details of how to move pages without making the system crater.
>
> This sounds like it's behind dependent on physically scanning slabs,
> since one must choose slab pages for replacement on the basis of their
> potential to restore contiguity, not merely "dump whatever's replaceable
> and check how much got freed".
Though I'm not sure what "behind dependent" means, and I'm not the one
advocating slab for this, it's quite correct that scanning strategy would
need to change, at least when the system runs into cross-order imbalances.
But this isn't much different from the kinds of things we do already.
Regards,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-28 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-24 23:11 Daniel Phillips
2003-06-25 0:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-25 1:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-25 1:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-25 1:25 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-25 1:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-25 9:29 ` Mel Gorman
2003-06-26 19:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-26 20:01 ` Mel Gorman
2003-06-26 20:10 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-27 0:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-27 13:00 ` Mel Gorman
2003-06-27 14:38 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-27 14:41 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-27 14:43 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-27 14:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-27 15:04 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-27 15:17 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-27 15:22 ` Mel Gorman
2003-06-27 15:50 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-27 16:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-29 19:25 ` Mel Gorman
2003-06-28 21:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-29 21:26 ` Mel Gorman
2003-06-28 21:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-29 22:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-28 23:18 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2003-07-02 21:10 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-03 2:04 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-03 2:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
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