From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:03:59 -0300 From: Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/39] mm: 2.6.17-pr1 - generic page-replacement framework and 4 new policies Message-ID: <20060726100359.GA20096@dmt> References: <20060712143659.16998.6444.sendpatchset@lappy> <1152982981.31891.46.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 08:50:06PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > Now on the why, I still believe one of the advanced page replacement > > algorithms are better than the currently implemented. If only because > > they have access to more information, namely that provided by the > > nonresident page tracking. (Which, as shown by Rik's OLS entry this > > year, provides more interresting uses) > > Could you show us some workloads where this makes a significant > difference? http://www.linux-mm.org/PageReplacementTesting for instance. Check the CLOCKPro/ARC papers for more details. -- 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