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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: vmscan.c heuristic adjustment for smaller systems
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 12:05:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040418190514.GC743@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040418180614.GA29280@flea>

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:53:24AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Well, there's a point of some kind to it.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:06:14AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> I don't think I understand what you mean.

Feeding the replacement heuristics better input tends to get better
results, or something on that order.


On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:53:24AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Actually ptep_to_address() should find the uvaddr for you.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:06:14AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> The set_pte function is assembler coded.  For a proof of concept, I am
> willing to be blunt.

If you're stuck examining struct page you might want to keep it in C for
a while.


On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:53:24AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I'm not going to tell ou what your results are.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:06:14AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> Perhaps, though, this isn't such a bad result.  It could mean that the
> lazy TLB flush is OK and that my bug is something different.  Or, it
> could mean that I'm still doing the flush incorrectly and that that is
> the correct solution were it done right.

Was this the one-liner in vmscan.c from earlier?


-- wli

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-18 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20040418174743.GC28744@flea>
     [not found] ` <20040418175324.GB743@holomorphy.com>
2004-04-18 18:06   ` Marc Singer
2004-04-18 19:05     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-04-18 17:48 Marc Singer

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