From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>,
"Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> Marcelo Tosatti"
<marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>,
Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>,
Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@skelleftea.mail.telia.com>
Subject: Re: 2.4.8-pre1 and dbench -20% throughput
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:23:25 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0107292021480.11893-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0107292242170.1279-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> >
> > "Age" is hugely misleading, I think everybody agrees,
Yup. I mainly kept it because we called things this way
in the 1.2, 1.3, 2.0 and 2.1 kernels.
> > That said, I think BSD uses "weight".
> That's much _much_ better: I'd go for "warmth" myself,
FreeBSD uses act_count, short for activation count.
Showing how active a page is is probably a better analogy
than the temperature one ... but that's just IMHO ;)
regards,
Rik
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200107272112.f6RLC3d28206@maila.telia.com>
[not found] ` <0107280034050V.00285@starship>
2001-07-27 23:43 ` Roger Larsson
2001-07-28 1:11 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-28 3:18 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-28 13:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-07-28 20:13 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-28 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-29 14:10 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-29 14:48 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-29 15:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-29 15:31 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-07-29 16:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-29 20:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-07-29 20:25 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-29 20:44 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-07-29 21:20 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-29 21:51 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-07-29 23:23 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-07-31 7:30 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-07-31 14:13 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-31 17:37 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-07-29 1:41 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-29 14:39 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-30 3:19 ` Theodore Tso
2001-07-30 15:17 ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-07-30 16:41 ` Theodore Tso
2001-07-30 17:52 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-07-30 19:39 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-07-29 17:48 ` Steven Cole
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