Re: Background scanning change on 2.4.6-pre1

[Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

> 
> Marcelo Tosatti writes:
>  > > and Davem tried that once with noticeable performance
>  > > degradation from the added locking and list manipulation.
>  > 
>  > David, 
>  > 
>  > Could you please send me that code so I can work on it and try to reduce
>  > the performance degradation and take a look at the what it gives us ?
>  > 
>  > And remember even if we have a performance degradation by the locking and
>  > list manipulation by adding this "feature", it may bring us a big
>  > advantage on the fair aging thing I described above.
> 
> Please search the linux-mm archives, Stephen Tweedie posted my patches
> at some point long ago.
> 
> I deleted all my copies because that code does not deserve to live in
> my opinion, and the problem ought to be attacked from another angle.

Wow, that makes me very enthusiatic, David. :) 

How do you think the problem should be attacked, if you have any opinion
at all ? 

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