From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 6/10] split anon and file LRUs
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:28:19 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711061825590.5249@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071103190158.34b4650e@bree.surriel.com>
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Split the LRU lists in two, one set for pages that are backed by
> real file systems ("file") and one for pages that are backed by
> memory and swap ("anon"). The latter includes tmpfs.
If we split the memory backed from the disk backed pages then
they are no longer competing with one another on equal terms? So the file LRU
may run faster than the memory LRU?
The patch looks awfully large.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-07 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-03 22:42 [RFC PATCH 0/10] " Rik van Riel
2007-11-03 22:54 ` [RFC PATCH 1/10] move isolate_lru_page to vmscan.c Rik van Riel
2007-11-07 2:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-03 22:54 ` [RFC PATCH 2/10] free swap space entries if vm_swap_full() Rik van Riel
2007-11-07 2:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-07 2:48 ` Rik van Riel
2007-11-03 22:55 ` [RFC PATCH 3/10] define page_file_cache Rik van Riel
2007-11-07 2:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-07 2:55 ` Rik van Riel
2007-11-07 3:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-07 3:17 ` Rik van Riel
2007-11-07 3:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-07 14:35 ` Rik van Riel
2007-11-07 18:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-07 18:17 ` Rik van Riel
2007-11-07 18:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-03 22:55 ` [RFC PATCH 4/10] debug page_file_cache Rik van Riel
2007-11-03 22:56 ` [RFC PATCH 5/10] use an indexed array for LRU lists and variables Rik van Riel
2007-11-03 23:01 ` [RFC PATCH 6/10] split anon and file LRUs Rik van Riel
2007-11-07 2:28 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-11-07 3:00 ` Rik van Riel
2007-11-03 23:02 ` [RFC PATCH 7/10] clean up the LRU array arithmetic Rik van Riel
2007-11-03 23:03 ` [RFC PATCH 8/10] make split VM and lumpy reclaim work together Rik van Riel
2007-11-03 23:04 ` [RFC PATCH 9/10] split VM and memory controllers Rik van Riel
2007-11-03 23:06 ` [RFC PATCH 10/10] add swapped in pages to the inactive list Rik van Riel
2007-11-07 2:11 ` [RFC PATCH 0/10] split anon and file LRUs Christoph Lameter
2007-11-07 2:23 ` Rik van Riel
2007-11-07 2:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-07 2:51 ` Rik van Riel
2007-11-07 17:59 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-07 18:16 ` Rik van Riel
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