From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:50:30 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: MM/VM todo list 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: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > here is a TODO list for the memory management area of the > > Linux kernel, with both trivial things that could be done > > for later 2.4 releases and more complex things that really > > have to be 2.5 things. > > > > Most of these can be found on http://linux24.sourceforge.net/ too > > > > Trivial stuff: > > * VM: better IO clustering for swap (and filesystem) IO > > * Marcelo's swapin/out clustering code > * Swap space preallocation at try_to_swap_out() > > > * ->writepage() IO clustering support > > Hum, IMO this should be in the "2.5" list because The non-trivial part of improved IO clustering should be a 2.5 thing indeed, but I'm not convinced there aren't any trivial things left which can give us a nice improvement now (and for the whole 2.4 series). regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to loose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ -- 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/