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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, piggin@cyberone.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not mark being-truncated-pages as cache hot
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:10:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040913171037.793d4f68.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66880000.1095120205@flay>

"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> > - Making the allocation policy FIFO should drastically increase the chances "hot" pages
>  > are handed to the allocator. AFAIK the policy now is LIFO.
> 
>  It should definitely have been FIFO to start with

I always intended that it be LIFO.  Take the hottest page, for heavens
sake.  As the oldest page is the one which is most likely to have fallen
out of cache then why a-priori choose it?
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-14  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-13 21:57 Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-13 23:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-13 23:10   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-14  0:03 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-13 23:19   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-14  1:21     ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-14 10:13       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-14  0:10   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-09-14  0:24     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-13 23:31       ` Marcelo Tosatti

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