From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>,
Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mankato.msus.edu>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: useless report -- perhaps memory allocation problems in 2.1.12[678]
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:41:51 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981117174031.23128A-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981117171051.1077V-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> But whether kswapd should go page-synchronous at some point? Maybe. I can
> see arguments both for and against (the "for" argument is that we prefer
> to have more intense bouts of IO followed by a nice clean wait, while the
> "against" argument is that maybe we want to spread out the thing).
Oh, well, I'm currently leaning for "for", which means your patch to
page_io.c is what I have now.. I don't like "trickling" pages by running
out of requests or something like that, so having the occasional nice wait
is probably best.
Linus
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[not found] <199811131746.LAA23512@mail.mankato.msus.edu>
1998-11-16 14:27 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-17 11:21 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-17 20:18 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-17 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds
1998-11-18 1:09 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-18 1:21 ` Linus Torvalds
1998-11-18 1:41 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
1998-11-18 8:58 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-18 9:19 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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