From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 14:06:20 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: riel@nl.linux.org Subject: Re: kswapd @ 60-80% CPU during heavy HD i/o. 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: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Roger Larsson , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 2 May 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > >That's a very bad idea. > > However the lru_cache have definitely to be per-node and not > global as now in 2.3.99-pre6 and pre7-1 or you won't be able to > do the smart things I was mentining some day ago in linux-mm > with NUMA. How do you want to take care of global page balancing with this "optimisation"? If you cannot find a good answer to that, you'd better not spend too much time implementing any of this... regards, Rik -- The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network of people. That is its real strength. Wanna talk about the kernel? irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ -- 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/