From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4021A7ED.7070703@cyberone.com.au> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 13:18:21 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm improvements References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Rik van Riel wrote: >On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >>Nick Piggin wrote: >> >> >>> > 2/5: vm-dont-rotate-active-list.patch >>> > Nikita's patch to keep more page ordering info in the active list. >>> > Also should improve system time due to less useless scanning >>> > Helps swapping loads significantly. >>> >>> >>It bugs me that this improvement is also applicable to 2.4. if it makes >>the same improvement there, we're still behind. >> >> > >I suspect 2.4 won't see the gains from this, since active/inactive >list location is hardly relevant for mapped pages there, due to the >page table scanning algorithm. > > > Yeah you're right. -- 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: aart@kvack.org