From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:21:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [highmem bug report against -test5 and -test6] Re: [PATCH] Re: simple FS application that hangs 2.4-test5, mem mgmt problem or FS buffer cache mgmt problem? (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-mm@kvack.org, "Stephen C. Tweedie" List-ID: On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Would it be "close enough" to simply clear the buffer heads of > clean pages which make it to the front of the active list ? > > Or is there another optimisation we could do to make the > approximation even better ? I'd prefer it to be done as part of the LRU aging - we do watn to age all pages, and as part of the aging process we migth as well remove buffers that are lying around. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/