From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:08:03 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: rmap15a swappy? In-Reply-To: <6uisxzrl00.fsf@zork.zork.net> Message-ID: References: <6uu1hjruye.fsf@zork.zork.net> <6uisxzrl00.fsf@zork.zork.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Sean Neakums Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Sean Neakums wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Sean Neakums wrote: > > > > Indeed, the older rmaps swapped later. However, swapping > > a little bit earlier turns out to be faster for almost all > > workloads. > > Oh right, because if you get sudden memory pressure you have a bunch > of pages that you can just throw away without writeout? Exactly. > Anyway, that's nifty. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't a > regression. I know there are a few regressions in "strange" corner cases, stuff I can easily reproduce with special test programs but haven't seen in real life. I'm still ironing out those. regards, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://guru.conectiva.com/ Current spamtrap: october@surriel.com -- 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/