From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] non-resident page tracking
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 19:52:14 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0508091950430.1888@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050809182517.GA20644@dmt.cnet>
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Two hopefully useful comments:
>
> i) ARC and its variants requires additional information about page
> replacement (namely whether the page has been reclaimed from the L1 or
> L2 lists).
>
> How costly would it be to add this information to the hash table?
Not at all. Simply reduce the hash to 31 bits and use the remaining
bit to store that value.
> ii) From my reading of the patch, the provided "distance" information is
> relative to each hash bucket. I'm unable to understand the distance metric
> being useful if measured per-hash-bucket instead of globally?
The idea is that the hash function spreads things around evenly
enough for the different buckets to rotate at roughly the same
speed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-09 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-08 20:14 [RFC 0/3] " Rik van Riel
2005-08-08 20:14 ` [RFC 1/3] " Rik van Riel
2005-08-08 20:26 ` David S. Miller, Rik van Riel
2005-08-08 20:30 ` Rik van Riel
2005-08-09 18:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-08-09 19:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2005-08-09 21:13 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-08-10 8:40 ` Rik van Riel
2005-08-09 23:52 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2005-08-08 20:14 ` [RFC 2/3] " Rik van Riel
2005-08-08 20:14 ` [RFC 3/3] " Rik van Riel
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