From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:20:24 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: MM/VM todo list In-Reply-To: <20010105221326.A10112@caldera.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:56:40PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > * VM: experiment with different active lists / aging pages > > > of different ages at different rates + other page replacement > > > improvements > > > * VM: Quality of Service / fairness / ... improvements > > * VM: Use kiobuf IO in VM instead buffer_head IO. > > I'd vote for killing both bufer_head and kiobuf from VM. > Lokk at my pageio patch - VM doesn't know about the use of kiobufs > in the filesystem IO... Could be interesting ... but is it generalised enough to also work with eg. network IO ? I won't kill this TODO item until I understand what exactly you want to achieve and why it would be a good thing (and until there is some kind of agreement about this idea). Btw, http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/todo.shtml 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/