From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:06:09 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] Page allocator: Get rid of the list of cold pages In-Reply-To: <20071121235849.GG31674@csn.ul.ie> Message-ID: References: <20071115162706.4b9b9e2a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071121222059.GC31674@csn.ul.ie> <20071121230041.GE31674@csn.ul.ie> <20071121235849.GG31674@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, apw@shadowen.org, Martin Bligh List-ID: On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > I didn't think you were going to roll a patch and had queued this > slightly more agressive version. I think it is a superset of what your > patch does. Looks okay. Also note that you can avoid mmap_sem cacheline bouncing by having separate address spaces. Forking a series of processes that then fault pages each into their own address space will usually do the trick. -- 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