From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 17:44:32 -0300 (BRT) From: Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: Background scanning change on 2.4.6-pre1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "David S. Miller" , Mike Galbraith , Zlatko Calusic , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. -- 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/