From: James A Sutherland <james@sutherland.net>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH *] rmap based VM #11a
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:50:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <T5852fcda58ac1785e72b4@pcow029o.blueyonder.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0201081045030.872-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 12:45 pm, Rik van Riel wrote:
> The first maintenance release of the 11th version of the reverse
> mapping based VM is now available. It fixes agpgart_be and the
> OOM killer. Tests on diskless machines are especially appreciated.
>
> This is an attempt at making a more robust and flexible VM
> subsystem, while cleaning up a lot of code at the same time.
> The patch is available from:
>
> http://surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.17-rmap-11a
> and http://linuxvm.bkbits.net/
>
>
> My big TODO items for a next release are:
> - fix page_launder() so it doesn't submit the whole
> inactive_dirty list for writeout in one go
Hmm - is this necessarily a bad thing? For local disks, if you tell the
elevator to give these writes minimal priority (i.e. avoid/minimise impact on
other disk usage), writing out nice big chunks sounds like a good thing...
James.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-08 12:45 Rik van Riel
2002-01-08 14:10 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-01-08 14:50 ` James A Sutherland [this message]
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