From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@mathematik.uni-ulm.de>,
Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: MM patches against 2.5.31
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 21:13:38 -0300 (BRT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0208262113070.1857-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D6AC0BB.FE65D5F7@zip.com.au>
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well we wouldn't want to leave tons of free pages on the LRU - the VM
> would needlessly reclaim pagecache before finding the free pages. And
> higher-order page allocations could suffer.
We did this with the swap cache in 2.4.<7 and it was an
absolute disaster.
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-27 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-26 22:09 Ed Tomlinson
2002-08-26 23:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-27 0:13 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2002-08-28 17:06 ` slablru for 2.5.32-mm1 Ed Tomlinson
2002-08-28 21:24 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-28 22:23 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-02 5:26 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-02 15:00 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-09-02 18:35 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-02 19:09 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-09-02 19:51 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-02 6:50 ` Andrew Morton
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-22 2:29 MM patches against 2.5.31 Andrew Morton
2002-08-22 11:28 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-26 1:52 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-26 9:10 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-26 14:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-26 15:29 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-26 17:56 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-26 19:24 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-26 19:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-26 19:48 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-27 9:22 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-27 19:19 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-26 20:00 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-26 20:09 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-26 20:58 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-27 16:48 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-28 13:14 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-28 17:18 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-28 17:42 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-28 20:41 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-28 21:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-28 22:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-28 22:39 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-28 22:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-26 21:31 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-27 3:42 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-08-27 4:37 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-22 15:59 ` Steven Cole
2002-08-22 16:06 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-22 19:45 ` Steven Cole
2002-08-26 2:15 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-26 2:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-26 2:32 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-26 3:06 ` Steven Cole
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