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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.2.17pre7 VM enhancement Re: I/O performance on
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:44:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <397337EF.58667DD@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007171149440.30603-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>

Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> 
> Actually, FreeBSD has a special case in the page fault code
> for sequential accesses and I believe we must have that too.
> 

Where is that code? I found a sysctl parameter vm_pageout_algorithm_lru,
but nothing else.

> Both LRU and LFU break down on linear accesses to an array
> that doesn't fit in memory. In that case you really want
> MRU replacement, with some simple code that "detects the
> window size" you need to keep in memory. This seems to be
> the only way to get any speedup on such programs when you
> increase memory size to something which is still smaller
> than the total program size.
> 

Do you have an idea how to detect that situation?

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-17 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20000629114407.A3914@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006291330520.1713-100000@inspiron.random>
2000-06-29 13:00   ` [PATCH] 2.2.17pre7 VM enhancement Re: I/O performance on 2.4.0-test2 Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-07-06 10:35     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-07-06 13:29       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-07-09 17:11         ` Swap clustering with new VM Marcelo Tosatti
2000-07-09 20:53           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-07-11  9:36             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-07-09 20:31         ` [PATCH] 2.2.17pre7 VM enhancement Re: I/O performance on 2.4.0-test2 Andrea Arcangeli
2000-07-11 11:50           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-07-11 16:17             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-07-11 16:36               ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-07-11 17:33                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-07-11 17:45                   ` Rik van Riel
2000-07-11 17:54                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-07-11 18:03                       ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-07-11 19:32                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-07-12  0:05                           ` John Alvord
2000-07-12  0:52                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-07-12 18:02                             ` Rik van Riel
2000-07-14  8:51               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-07-11 17:32           ` Rik van Riel
2000-07-11 17:41             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-07-11 17:47               ` Rik van Riel
2000-07-11 18:00                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-07-11 18:06                   ` Rik van Riel
2000-07-17  7:09                     ` [PATCH] 2.2.17pre7 VM enhancement Re: I/O performance on Yannis Smaragdakis
2000-07-17  9:28                       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-07-17 13:01                         ` James Manning
2000-07-17 14:32                           ` Scott F. Kaplan
2000-07-17 14:53                         ` Rik van Riel
2000-07-17 16:44                           ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2000-07-17 17:02                             ` Rik van Riel
2000-07-17 18:55                           ` Yannis Smaragdakis
2000-07-17 19:57                           ` John Fremlin
2000-07-17 14:46                       ` Alan Cox
2000-07-17 14:55                         ` Scott F. Kaplan
2000-07-17 15:31                           ` Rik van Riel
2000-07-14  9:01                   ` [PATCH] 2.2.17pre7 VM enhancement Re: I/O performance on 2.4.0-test2 Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-07-11 18:13               ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-07-11 20:57                 ` Roger Larsson
2000-07-11 22:49                   ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-07-12 16:01               ` Kev
2000-07-06 13:54       ` [PATCH] 2.2.17pre7 VM enhancement Re: I/O performance on2.4.0-test2 Roman Zippel

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