From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:31:05 -0300 From: Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not mark being-truncated-pages as cache hot Message-ID: <20040913233104.GD23588@logos.cnet> References: <20040913171037.793d4f68.akpm@osdl.org> <72070000.1095121472@flay> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <72070000.1095121472@flay> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, piggin@cyberone.com.au List-ID: On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 05:24:32PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > "Martin J. Bligh" 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? > > Bah. I just had my acronyms backwards ... I meant LIFO, sorry ;-) I inverted both in the first email, I meant the other way around. Sorry :) -- 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