From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:59:35 -0300 (BRT) From: Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: Background scanning change on 2.4.6-pre1 In-Reply-To: <15137.17195.500288.181489@pizda.ninka.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Mike Galbraith , Zlatko Calusic , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 ? -- 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-mm.org/