From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <AKPM@Osdl.ORG>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: VM 4/8 dont-rotate-active-list
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:49:12 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504180847350.3232@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16994.40620.892220.121182@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> This patch modifies refill_inactive_zone() so that it scans active_list
> without rotating it. To achieve this, special dummy page zone->scan_page
> is maintained for each zone. This page marks a place in the active_list
> reached during scanning.
Doesn't this make the active list behave closer to FIFO ?
How does this behave when running a mix of multiple
applications, instead of one app that's referencing
memory in a circular pattern ? Say, AIM7 ?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-18 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-17 17:36 Nikita Danilov
2005-04-18 12:49 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2005-04-19 13:54 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-04-26 3:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-26 6:51 ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-26 8:11 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-04-26 8:18 ` Andrew Morton
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