From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] first bit of vm balancing fixes for 2.3.52-1
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:32:05 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003131631060.799-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200003140023.QAA09732@google.engr.sgi.com>
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
> > It's certainly "different", and LRU list itself will obviously not be as
> > "least recently used" as a global LRU. However, considering that we're
> > only using the LRU on a per-zone basis anyway, I think it should give the
> > same basic behaviour, no?
>
> Hmm, true ... I would like Ben to look over the low_on_memory and
> zone_wake_kswapd setting/clearing part though.
The more the merrier. Before new releases we've always had a "tuning"
period with tons of sometimes arbitrary patches going in to make
performance smooth on different classes of machines (16MB - 4GB is quite
the range to try to cover ;).
Linus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-03-14 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-13 22:50 Ben LaHaise
2000-03-13 22:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-03-13 23:28 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-03-13 23:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-03-14 0:23 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-03-14 0:32 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2000-03-17 12:35 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-03-20 20:58 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-03-20 21:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-03-20 22:06 ` Linus Torvalds
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