From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:10:55 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk Subject: Re: [RFC] My research agenda for 2.7 Message-ID: <20030702211055.GC13296@matchmail.com> References: <200306250111.01498.phillips@arcor.de> <200306262100.40707.phillips@arcor.de> <200306270222.27727.phillips@arcor.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Daniel Phillips , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:00:42PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > You're right, I will need to write a proper RFC one way or the other. I > was thinking of using slabs because that way there wouldn't be need to > scan all of mem_map, just a small number of slabs. I have no basis for > this other than hand waving gestures though. Mel, This sounds much like something I was reading from Larry McVoy using page objects (like one level higher in magnatude than pages). I don't remember the URL, but there was something pretty extensive from Larry already explaining the concept. -- 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/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org