From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:54:04 +1100 (EST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Subtle MM bug In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , "David S. Miller" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > - gets rid of the complex "best mm" logic and replaces it with the > round-robin thing as discussed. This could help IO clustering as well, which should be good whenever we want to swap the data back in ;) > - it cleans up and simplifies the MM "priority" thing. In fact, right now > only one priority is ever used, Sounds great. In the week that I've been offline I have been working on page_launder and doing a few other improvements to the VM. Once I get the time to clean everything up I think we can take 2.4 to a slightly better performance level without having to change anything big. regards, Rik (at linux.conf.au) -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/