From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:34:49 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: TODO list for new VM (oct 2000) 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: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, Matthew Dillon List-ID: On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Why do you apparently ignore the fact that page-out write-back > > performance is horribly crappy because it always starts out > > doing synchronous writes? > > Because it is fixed in the patch I mailed yesterday? One small warning though. Please don't apply that patch yet because I fixed 3 more small problems today. I'll send you an updated patch... - the compile warnings are fixed - in try_to_free_pages(), we forgot to set PF_MEMALLOC in current->flags (oops) - in grow_buffers(), in case we cannot get a buffer head, we must unlock the page A patch against 2.4.0-test9-pre8 with these 3 changes will be on its way once I've tested it a bit... regards, Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 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/