From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: inactive-clean list
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:00:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C518D6.3090606@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607241109190.25634@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
>> This patch makes it possible to implement Martin Schwidefsky's
>> hypervisor-based fast page reclaiming for architectures without
>> millicode - ie. Xen, UML and all other non-s390 architectures.
>>
>> That could be a big help in heavily loaded virtualized environments.
>>
>> The fact that it helps prevent the iSCSI memory deadlock is a
>> huge bonus too, of course :)
>
> I think there may be a way with less changes to the way the VM functions
> to get there:
That approach probably has way too many state changes going
between the guest OS and the hypervisor...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-24 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-17 20:24 Peter Zijlstra
2006-07-18 3:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 12:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-07-18 13:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 13:55 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-07-18 13:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 15:12 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-07-18 15:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 16:23 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-07-18 14:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 14:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-18 14:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-18 15:59 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-23 5:50 ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-24 18:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-24 19:00 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2006-07-25 20:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-25 21:37 ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-25 23:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 0:02 ` Rik van Riel
2006-07-26 0:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 11:00 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-26 11:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-07-26 13:04 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-26 14:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-07-27 11:16 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-26 15:41 ` Rik van Riel
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