From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:50:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/39] mm: 2.6.17-pr1 - generic page-replacement framework and 4 new policies In-Reply-To: <1152982981.31891.46.camel@lappy> Message-ID: References: <20060712143659.16998.6444.sendpatchset@lappy> <1152982981.31891.46.camel@lappy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Now on the why, I still believe one of the advanced page replacement > algorithms are better than the currently implemented. If only because > they have access to more information, namely that provided by the > nonresident page tracking. (Which, as shown by Rik's OLS entry this > year, provides more interresting uses) Could you show us some workloads where this makes a significant difference? -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org