From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>, Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: How can we make page replacement smarter
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:09:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070729140936.6cd364a9@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46ABF184.40803@redhat.com>
> Files are different. File content tends to be grouped
> in large related chunks, both logically in the file and
> on disk. Generally there is a lot more file data on a
> system than what fits in memory.
Binary paging patterns don't always look like that unfortunately although
I suspect we might want to be weighing towards paging out R/O file mapped
pages earlier simply because they are bigger linear chunks
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200707272243.02336.a1426z@gawab.com>
2007-07-28 1:56 ` swap-prefetch: A smart way to make good use of idle resources (was: updatedb) Chris Snook
2007-07-28 4:17 ` How can we make page replacement smarter (was: swap-prefetch) Al Boldi
2007-07-28 7:27 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-28 11:11 ` Al Boldi
2007-07-29 4:07 ` Rik van Riel
2007-07-29 6:40 ` Erblichs
2007-07-29 1:46 ` How can we make page replacement smarter Rik van Riel
2007-07-29 13:09 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-07-29 15:01 ` Rik van Riel
2007-07-29 14:55 ` Al Boldi
2007-07-28 4:18 ` swap-prefetch: A smart way to make good use of idle resources (was: updatedb) Al Boldi
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