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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] slabnow
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 07:14:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17oGsI-0006mQ-00@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D7C2AAB.E02B7E26@digeo.com>

On Monday 09 September 2002 06:59, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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...

Sure.  And we know what to do about it when it does get around to
breaking.

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Daniel
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-09  5:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-07 14:06 Ed Tomlinson
2002-09-08 20:45 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09  4:59   ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09  5:14     ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
     [not found] ` <200209081142.02839.tomlins@cam.org>
2002-09-08 20:56   ` [PATCH] slabasap-mm5_A2 Andrew Morton
2002-09-08 21:08     ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-08 21:14     ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-09-08 21:47       ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-08 21:48         ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-09-08 22:46           ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09  9:29     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-09-09 21:33     ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-09-09 22:07       ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 22:28         ` Ed Tomlinson

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