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)

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

This was what I was proposing ;)

With, maybe, the optimisation that we don't want to do this
if we're simply doing background scanning and we don't have a
free memory shortage yet.

regards,

Rik
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