From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>,
Zlatko Calusic <zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Background scanning change on 2.4.6-pre1
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 17:44:32 -0300 (BRT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106081743070.2699-100000@freak.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0106081439540.7448-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> > How do you think the problem should be attacked, if you have any opinion
> > at all ?
>
> Let's try the "refill_inactive() also does VM scanning" approach, as that
> should make sure that we are never in the situation that we haven't taken
> the virtually mapped pages sufficiently into account for aging.
I've tried that in the past, and the behaviour I got was pages being
swapped out with little (or not any) VM pressure.
Yes, we want fair aging. No, we dont want more pages being swapped out.
Well, I'll take a look at this.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-08 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.31.0106081313500.3244-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-06-08 19:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-08 21:27 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-08 19:59 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-08 21:47 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-08 21:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-08 20:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2001-06-08 22:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-08 21:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-09 0:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-09 3:48 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-09 4:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-09 3:46 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-07 18:50 Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-07 20:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-07 20:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-07 19:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-07 21:08 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-07 21:05 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-06-09 3:26 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-07 21:09 ` Andreas Dilger
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