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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] VM stable again?
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:22:12 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005152120350.8896-100000@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000515200116.E24812@redhat.com>

On Mon, 15 May 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> One other thought here --- there is another way to achieve this.
> Make try_to_free_pages() return a struct page *.  That will not
> only achieve some measure of SMP locality, it also guarantees that
> the page freed will be reacquired by the task which did the work to
> free it.

i suggested this as well, but this is not always possible. Eg. the dentry
and inode cache does a slab-free, and there is no good (existing)
mechanizm to do it and recover the page freed. And singling out
shrink_mmap() is not generic enough. (although it's the most common source
of free pages)

	Ingo

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-05-15 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-15 15:12 Rik van Riel
2000-05-15 15:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-15 15:27   ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-15 16:15     ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-15 18:36   ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-15 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-15 19:01 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-05-15 19:10   ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-15 19:30     ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-15 19:27       ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-15 19:22   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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