From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] slabnow Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 07:14:14 +0200 References: <200209071006.18869.tomlins@cam.org> <3D7C2AAB.E02B7E26@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <3D7C2AAB.E02B7E26@digeo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Ed Tomlinson , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel List-ID: 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. -- Daniel -- 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/