From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Subtle MM bug
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:11:32 -0200 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101081101430.5599-100000@freak.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101072223160.29065-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> and just get rid of all the logic to try to "find the best mm". It's bogus
> anyway: we should get perfectly fair access patterns by just doing
> everything in round-robin, and each "swap_out_mm(mm)" would just try to
> walk some fixed percentage of the RSS size (say, something like
>
> count = (mm->rss >> 4)
>
> and be done with it.
I have the impression that a fixed percentage of the RSS will be a problem
when you have a memory hog (or hogs) running.
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2001-01-08 6:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 13:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2001-01-08 16:42 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 17:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 13:57 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-08 17:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 18:10 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-08 21:52 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-09 0:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 23:49 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-09 3:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 20:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-09 22:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 21:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-09 22:11 ` Yet another bogus piece of do_try_to_free_pages() Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-10 0:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-10 6:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-10 22:19 ` Roger Larsson
2001-01-11 0:11 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-17 6:58 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-17 6:07 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-17 19:04 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-17 19:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-18 0:55 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-17 6:52 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-09 23:58 ` Subtle MM bug Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 22:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-10 0:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-10 0:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-10 11:29 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-11 3:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-11 9:42 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-11 15:24 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-17 4:54 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 16:45 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 18:21 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-07 20:59 Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-07 21:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-07 22:33 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-09 2:01 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-17 4:48 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-17 18:53 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-18 1:32 ` Rik van Riel
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