From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Consistent page aging....
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:49:58 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0107251249180.20326-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0107250701330.2948-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> >
> > > We had to be able to age pages without allocating swap space...
> >
> > I don't see any technical reasons why we can't do this. Doing it
> > without adding many extra special cases would require some thinking
> > but nothing fundamental says you can't have anonymous pages in the
> > active list.
>
> Right.
Except that for - presumably dbench-related ? - reasons
Linus and Davem seem to be vetoeing this change.
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-25 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0107250416230.2823-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
2001-07-25 10:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-25 10:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-07-25 15:49 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-07-25 16:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-25 16:42 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-26 7:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-25 16:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-26 10:04 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-07-26 14:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-27 23:45 ` Jordi Polo
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