From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:37:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: inactive-clean list In-Reply-To: <1153167857.31891.78.camel@lappy> Message-ID: References: <1153167857.31891.78.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 , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel List-ID: On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > This patch implements the inactive_clean list spoken of during the VM summit. > The LRU tail pages will be unmapped and ready to free, but not freeed. > This gives reclaim an extra chance. I thought we wanted to just track the number of unmapped clean pages and insure that they do not go under a certain limit? That would not require any locking changes but just a new zoned counter and a check in the dirty handling path. -- 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