From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: James A Sutherland Subject: Re: [PATCH *] rmap based VM #11a Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:50:24 +0000 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- 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/