From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][1/2] return values shrink_dcache_memory etc
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:41:39 -0300 (BRT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0207201740580.12241-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207201308180.1419-100000@home.transmeta.com>
On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > this patch, against current 2.5.27, builds on the patch that let
> > kmem_cache_shrink return the number of pages freed. This value
> > is used as the return value for shrink_dcache_memory and friends.
> I'd be much more interested in the "put the cache pages on the dirty list,
> and have memory pressure push them out in LRU order" approach. Somebody
> already had preliminary patches.
>
> That gets _rid_ of dcache_shrink() and friends, instead of making them
> return meaningless numbers.
OK, I'll try to forward-port Ed's code to do that from 2.4 to 2.5
this weekend...
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-20 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-20 19:40 Rik van Riel
2002-07-20 20:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-20 20:41 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2002-07-20 20:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-20 21:42 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-22 5:04 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-22 5:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-22 5:38 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-22 6:06 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-22 6:46 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-22 7:20 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-22 14:00 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-22 13:34 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-22 13:44 ` Rik van Riel
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