From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 19:20:47 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: [RFC] My research agenda for 2.7 Message-ID: <20030703022047.GM26348@holomorphy.com> References: <200306250111.01498.phillips@arcor.de> <200306262100.40707.phillips@arcor.de> <200306270222.27727.phillips@arcor.de> <20030702211055.GC13296@matchmail.com> <20030703020445.GA4379@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030703020445.GA4379@work.bitmover.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Larry McVoy , Mel Gorman , Daniel Phillips , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 07:04:45PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > If we're thinking about the same thing, the basic idea was to store > information into a higher level object and make more intelligent paging > decisions based on the higher level object. In my brain, since I'm a > SunOS guy, that means that you store information in the vnode (inode) > which reflects the status of all pages backed by this inode. > Instead of trying to figure out what to do at the page level, you figure > out what to do at the object level. > Some postings about this: > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=topvn+mcvoy&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=3cgeu9%24h96%40fido.asd.sgi.com&rnum=1 > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=vnode+mcvoy&start=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=l0ojgnINN59t%40appserv.Eng.Sun.COM&rnum=12 > I can't find the writeup that you are thinking about. I know what you mean, > there was a discussion of paging algs and I went off about how scanning a > page a time is insane. If someone finds the URL let me know. I believe people are already on file object local page replacement, though it's more in the planning than implementation phase. -- wli -- 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