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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc: Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>,
	Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@norran.net>,
	arch@FreeBSD.ORG, linux-mm@kvack.org, sfkaplan@cs.amherst.edu
Subject: Re: RE: on load control / process swapping
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 16:59:51 -0300 (BRST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105161658530.5251-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200105161754.f4GHsCd73025@earth.backplane.com>

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:

> :There's one thing "wrong" with the drop-behind idea though;
> :it penalises data even when it's still in core and we're
> :reading it for the second or third time.
>
>     It's not dropping the data, it's dropping the priority.  And yes, it
>     does penalize the data somewhat.  On the otherhand if the data happens
>     to still be in the cache and you scan it a second time, the page priority
>     gets bumped up

But doesn't it get pushed _down_ again after the process has read
the data?  Or is this a part of the code outside of vm/* which I
haven't read yet?

regards,

Rik
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-16 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-16 15:17 Charles Randall
2001-05-16 17:14 ` Matt Dillon
2001-05-16 17:41   ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-16 17:54     ` Matt Dillon
2001-05-16 19:59       ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-05-16 20:41         ` Matt Dillon
2001-05-18  5:58       ` Terry Lambert
2001-05-18  6:20         ` Matt Dillon
2001-05-18 10:00           ` Andrew Reilly
2001-05-18 13:49           ` Jonathan Morton
2001-05-19  2:18             ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-19  2:56               ` Jonathan Morton
2001-05-16 17:57     ` Alfred Perlstein
2001-05-16 18:01       ` Matt Dillon
2001-05-16 18:10         ` Alfred Perlstein

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