From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Scott Kaplan <sfkaplan@cs.amherst.edu>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: About the free page pool
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:15:04 -0300 (BRT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0209021812420.1857-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D73D666.9F3A8B0B@zip.com.au>
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well, I'm at a bit of a loss to understand what the objective
> of all this is. Is it so that we can effectively increase the
> cache size, by not "wasting" all that free memory?
This is the main goal, yes. It is worth noting that it also
works in the other direction, we can simply increase the clean
target to something large if we have a high allocation rate
because it doesn't waste memory to clean pages earlier.
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-02 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-02 19:50 Scott Kaplan
2002-09-02 20:33 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-02 20:50 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-02 21:21 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-02 21:15 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2002-09-02 21:58 ` Scott Kaplan
2002-09-03 1:11 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-03 1:35 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-03 5:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-03 5:43 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-03 5:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-03 16:46 ` Daniel Phillips
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