From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: James Antill <james@and.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Richard Jerrrell <jerrell@missioncriticallinux.com>,
Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>,
arjanv@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap_state.c thinko
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:20:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AD3872B.780F604C@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nnae5ompkm.fsf@code.and.org>
James Antill wrote:
> [1] Assuming that it doesn't kill performance by allocating non shared
> mappings, or chunks of swap etc. Ie. it just knows that it can
> allocate swap when it needs it later on.
Just FWIW... from my VM-ignorant standpoint, it seems like for the
no-overcommit case "reserving" swap space is a much cheaper operation
than unconditionally allocating swap space....
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-10 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-05 15:56 Ben LaHaise
2001-04-05 16:05 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-05 17:11 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-04-05 23:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 0:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 16:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 18:23 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 19:06 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-06 18:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 18:37 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 19:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 18:53 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 19:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 19:03 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 20:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 19:12 ` Richard Jerrell
2001-04-06 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 20:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 21:04 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-07 1:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-09 18:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-09 18:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-09 20:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-09 20:54 ` David L. Parsley
2001-04-10 21:07 ` James Antill
2001-04-10 22:20 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-04-06 20:48 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-05 17:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-05 21:39 ` Richard Jerrell
2001-04-06 20:20 Bulent Abali
2001-04-06 20:33 ` Jeff Garzik
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