From: Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>,
andrea@suse.de, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: filecache/swapcache questions [RFC] [RFT] [PATCH] kanoj-mm12-2.3.8
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 20:53:23 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.10.9906282052110.10964-100000@funky.monkey.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14199.62047.543601.273526@dukat.scot.redhat.com>
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:51:03 -0700 (PDT), kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com (Kanoj Sarcar) said:
>
> >> or perhaps the kernel could start more than one kswapd (one per swap
> >> partition?). with my patch, regular processes never wait for swap out
> >> I/O, only kswapd does.
>
> This is a mistake: such blocking is one of the prime ways in which we
> can limit the rate at which processes can consume memory.
whoops. i'm sorry, i mis-typed. i meant that regular processes never
*dispatch* I/O. neither kswapd nor regular processes will wait.
- Chuck Lever
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-06-29 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-21 5:29 filecache/swapcache questions Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-21 11:25 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-21 16:46 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-21 16:57 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-21 17:36 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-21 17:49 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-21 18:46 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-21 23:44 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-24 22:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-06-24 23:55 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-25 0:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-06-28 1:48 ` filecache/swapcache questions [RFC] [RFT] [PATCH] kanoj-mm12-2.3.8 Fix swapoff races Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-28 10:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-06-28 17:11 ` filecache/swapcache questions [RFC] [RFT] [PATCH] kanoj-mm12-2.3.8 Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-28 16:32 ` filecache/swapcache questions [RFC] [RFT] [PATCH] kanoj-mm12-2.3.8 Fix swapoff races Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-28 17:25 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-28 20:40 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-28 21:11 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-28 22:12 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-28 23:43 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-29 11:44 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-29 22:01 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-30 17:28 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-30 18:05 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-28 19:39 ` Chuck Lever
1999-06-28 19:55 ` filecache/swapcache questions [RFC] [RFT] [PATCH] kanoj-mm12-2.3.8 Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-28 20:33 ` Chuck Lever
1999-06-28 20:51 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-28 21:32 ` Chuck Lever
1999-06-28 21:38 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-28 21:50 ` Chuck Lever
1999-06-28 22:15 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-29 11:23 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-29 17:36 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-28 22:22 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-28 22:21 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-28 22:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-06-29 2:13 ` Chuck Lever
1999-06-29 12:01 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-29 12:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-06-30 15:59 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-29 1:00 ` Chuck Lever
1999-06-28 22:08 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-28 22:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-06-29 0:53 ` Chuck Lever [this message]
1999-06-29 11:14 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-28 22:09 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-28 20:45 ` filecache/swapcache questions [RFC] [RFT] [PATCH] kanoj-mm12-2.3.8 Fix swapoff races Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-28 21:14 ` Chuck Lever
1999-06-28 21:25 ` filecache/swapcache questions [RFC] [RFT] [PATCH] kanoj-mm12-2.3.8 Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-28 22:15 ` filecache/swapcache questions [RFC] [RFT] [PATCH] kanoj-mm12-2.3.8 Fix swapoff races Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-28 22:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-06-29 1:29 ` Chuck Lever
1999-06-29 11:58 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-29 12:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-06-29 15:27 ` Chuck Lever
1999-06-29 11:55 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-29 20:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-06-28 22:36 ` filecache/swapcache questions Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-28 23:24 ` Kanoj Sarcar
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