From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:24:32 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not mark being-truncated-pages as cache hot Message-ID: <72070000.1095121472@flay> In-Reply-To: <20040913171037.793d4f68.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20040913215753.GA23119@logos.cnet><66880000.1095120205@flay> <20040913171037.793d4f68.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, piggin@cyberone.com.au List-ID: > "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: >> >> > - Making the allocation policy FIFO should drastically increase the chances "hot" pages >> > are handed to the allocator. AFAIK the policy now is LIFO. >> >> It should definitely have been FIFO to start with > > I always intended that it be LIFO. Take the hottest page, for heavens > sake. As the oldest page is the one which is most likely to have fallen > out of cache then why a-priori choose it? Bah. I just had my acronyms backwards ... I meant LIFO, sorry ;-) M. -- 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