From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 16:30:22 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM bugfix + rebalanced + code beauty 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: Christoph Rohland Cc: evil7@bellsouth.net, Alan Cox , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: On 31 May 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote: > Rik van Riel writes: > > here is a patch (versus 2.4.0-test1-ac5 and 6) that fixes a number > > of things in the VM subsystem. > > > > - since the pagecache can now contain dirty pages, we no > > longer take them out of the pagecache when they get dirtied > > Does this mean, that we can do anonymous shared maps in the page > cache? I'm testing stuff now, but seem unable to reproduce your observation. However, I *am* seeing high cpu usage by kswapd ;) I guess we really want to integrate the SHM swapout routine with shrink_mmap... 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/