From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA19753 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 21:44:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D7C2AAB.E02B7E26@digeo.com> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 21:59:23 -0700 From: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] slabnow References: <200209071006.18869.tomlins@cam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Ed Tomlinson , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel List-ID: Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Saturday 07 September 2002 16:06, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > + /* > > + * Here we assume it costs one seek to replace a lru page and that > > + * it also takes a seek to recreate a cache object. With this in > > + * mind we age equal percentages of the lru and ageable caches. > > + * This should balance the seeks generated by these structures. > > + */ > > It's not a reliable assumption, for example, what is the relation between an > skbuff and a disk seek? Of course. But all the caches in question happen to be filesystem ones. I can live with that... -- 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/