From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 19:04:25 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: inactive_dirty list In-Reply-To: <3D79250B.6D705166@zip.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > hum. I'm trying to find a model where the VM can just ignore > dirty|writeback pagecache. We know how many pages are out > there, sure. But we don't scan them. Possible? Owww duh, I see it now. So basically pages should _only_ go into the inactive_dirty list when they are under writeout. Note that leaving dirty pages on the list can result in a waste of memory. Imagine the dirty limit being 40% and 30% of memory being dirty but not written out at the moment ... regards, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Spamtraps of the month: september@surriel.com trac@trac.org -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/