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From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: Lazy page reclamation on SMP machines: memory barriers
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 10:08:00 +0100 (MET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.980325100623.371C-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199803242254.WAA03274@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk>

On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> I'm in London until the weekend, but I hope to have the lazy page
> stealing in a fit state to release shortly after getting back thanks to
> this.

Then that would be the end of memory fragmentation. Since
marking something as stealable has no real performance penalty,
we could just mark so much memory stealable that we've got
3 128k area's stealable...

Rik.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-03-25 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-03-23 22:49 Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-03-23 23:20 ` Linus Torvalds
1998-03-24 22:54   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-03-24 23:45     ` David S. Miller
1998-03-25  0:11     ` Linus Torvalds
1998-03-25  9:08     ` Rik van Riel [this message]
1998-03-23 23:37 ` Linus Torvalds

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