From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:44:34 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [rfc] approach to pull writepage out of reclaim Message-ID: <20081009194434.GB25780@parisc-linux.org> References: <20081009144103.GE9941@wotan.suse.de> <48EE3A07.9060205@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48EE3A07.9060205@linux-foundation.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Nick Piggin , Linux Memory Management List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:06:15PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > > > So. Firstly, what I'm looking at is doing swap writeout from pdflush. This > > patch does that (working in concept, but pdflush and background writeout > > from dirty inode list isn't really up to the task, might scrap it and do the > > writeout from kswap). But writeout from radix-tree should actually be able to > > give better swapout pattern than LRU writepage as well. > > Patch is missing from the message. It's no longer acceptable to post descriptions of what you're about to do? You have to invest lots of time into creating a patch and testing that it works before posting it (only to have it shot down because someone disagrees with the design of your solution)? Really? -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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