From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
"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: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:48:45 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106090047320.10415-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0106081706260.10744-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But it would be interesting to hear what people think of moving the
> swap_out() call into refill_inactive_scan() instead of doing it
> outside.. However, that would further confuse the meaning of the
> "target" and "maxscan" in the scanning phase.
This would work if we had all the anonymous pages on the
active list, so we have an idea when we have had to "skip"
too many pages due to being mapped.
Doing things this way would also give us the information
we need to do some actual VM balancing...
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-09 3:48 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
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 [this message]
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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