From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 22:51:21 +0100 (BST) From: Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: 2.4.8-pre1 and dbench -20% throughput In-Reply-To: <01072923202100.01194@starship> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Rik van Riel , "Linus Torvalds Marcelo Tosatti" , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Mike Galbraith , Steven Cole , Roger Larsson List-ID: On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > "Age" is hugely misleading, I think everybody agrees, but we are still > in a stable series, and a global name change would just make it harder > to apply patches. There are very few places where "age" comes in. Not my call, but I doubt we're so frozen as to have to stick with that name. > That said, I think BSD uses "weight". It's not a lot better, but at > least you know that the more heaviliy weighted page is one with the > higher weight value, whereas we have "age up" meaning "make younger" :-/ > > And how can age go up and down anyway? I'd prefer to talk about > ->temperature, more in line with what we see in the literature. > > But then, it's so easy to talk about "aging", what would it be with > ->temperature: Heating? Cooling? Stirring? ;-) That's much _much_ better: I'd go for "warmth" myself, warm_page_up() and cool_page_down(). I particularly like the ambiguity, that a warmer page may be a more recently used page or a more frequently used page. Hugh -- 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/