From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
mfedyk@matchmail.com, m.c.p@wolk-project.de,
owner-linux-mm@kvack.org, plate@gmx.tm
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.4-rc2-mm1: vm-split-active-lists
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 19:35:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040312193547.GD18799@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4051D39D.80207@cyberone.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> In Linux, all reclaim is driven by a memory shortage. Often it
> is just because more memory is being requested for more file
> cache.
Is reclaim the same as swapping, though? I'd expect pages to be
written to the swapfile speculatively, before they are needed for
reclaim. Is that one of those behaviours which everyone agrees is
sensible, but it's yet to be implemented in the 2.6 VM?
> But presumably if you are running into memory pressure, you really
> will need to free those free list pages, requiring the page to be
> read from disk when it is used again.
The idea is that you write pages to swap _before_ the memory pressure
arrives, which makes those pages available immediately when memory
pressure does arrive, provided they are still clean. It's speculative.
I thought Linux did this already, but I don't know the current VM well.
-- Jamie
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-12 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-12 15:00 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-03-12 15:13 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-12 19:35 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2004-03-12 21:17 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-12 22:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-12 22:36 ` Mike Fedyk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-12 14:18 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-03-12 14:27 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-12 19:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-11 0:04 Nick Piggin
2004-03-11 17:25 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-03-12 9:09 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-12 9:27 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-12 9:37 ` Nick Piggin
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