From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: Benchmarks to exploit LRU deficiencies Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 02:13:29 +0200 References: <20051010184636.GA15415@logos.cnet> In-Reply-To: <20051010184636.GA15415@logos.cnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510110213.29937.ak@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, sjiang@lanl.gov, rni@andrew.cmu.edu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, riel@redhat.com List-ID: On Monday 10 October 2005 20:46, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Hi, > > There are a few experimental implementations of advanced replacement > algorithms being developed and discussed. Unfortunately, there is lack of > knowledge on how to properly test them. I think if you want to really see advantages you should not implement the advanced algorithms for the page cache, but for the inode/dentry cache. We seem to have far more problems in this area than with the standard page cache. -Andi -- 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: email@kvack.org