From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA00988 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 21:30:48 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:15:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: on the topic of LRU lists Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Stephen Tweedie Cc: Linux MM List-ID: Hi Stephen, now that I think of multiple lists, it might be nice to have a 2-level LRU scheme for each type of allocation: - user pages - shared stuff - buffers - page cache Then we do a sort of round-robin allocation and memory pressure will make sure that the amount of memory is automatically balanced between the different uses. (just a stupid idea) Rik. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org